From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatic shell CR escape \ alignment
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:53:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aa8kzkgx.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20111028213938.GQ23445@tracyreed.org
Tracy Reed <treed@edirectpublishing.com> wrote:
> When doing something like:
> command -option1 reallylongargument \
> -option2 evenlongerargumentfoo \
> -option3 oddlengthreallylongargument \
> -option4 reallylongargument \
> I really like to keep my code to 80 columns and line up those line-ending
> escape slashes so it looks neat. A few years ago someone showed me a really
> cool trick to be used when making shell scripts tidy: When in shell mode you
> could do something such that it would handle the column of \ in a special way and
> always keep them lined up and move them all in or out together whenever the
> length of the longest line changed. I have forgotten how it was done. Anyone
> know?
The basic concept is handled by align.el and there, appar-
ently, by basic-line-continuation. I don't know what custom-
izations you need for shell scripts, though (I usually pre-
fer manually calling align-regexp).
Tim
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2011-10-28 21:39 Automatic shell CR escape \ alignment Tracy Reed
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