indentation/alingment (was Re: dpkg-scanlibs)
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Er, sure you can. The bit of whitespace before "char" can be a tab, all
> > whitespace following it on successive lines should be spaces (or as a
> > general rule: indent with tabs, align with spaces). I've reformatted your
> > example above just like that, I think you'll find that the list lines up no
> > matter what your tab stop is.
>
> Yes, if you can pull off such a delicate dance of tabstoppery. If most
> editors had a visual tab it might even be quite easy..
>
> But that anyone but the most dedicated tab stop user would do that, I
> think is a little extreme..
Not if the indentation is done by the editor itself. Seems that the
standard cc-mode in emacs could not differentiate between alignment and
indentation, so I wrote a little patch for cc-engine.el. If tab-width is
set to c-basic-indent and indent-tabs-mode is on, this will give you tabs
for indentation and spaces for alignment.
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> ;; This will go into cc-vars.el
> (defcustom align-with-spaces t "Use spaces for alignment (not indentation)")
>
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> (align 0)
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> (if (and align-with-spaces
> (string-match "-cont" (symbol-name (caar c-syntactic-context))))
> (if syntax
> (error "Cannot use arg syntax if align-with-spaces is on")
> (save-excursion
> (setq align indent)
> (while (and
> (string-match "-cont"
> (symbol-name (caar c-syntactic-context)))
> (> (point) (point-min)))
> (beginning-of-line 0)
> (setq c-syntactic-context (c-guess-basic-syntax)))
> (setq indent
> (apply '+ (mapcar 'c-get-offset c-syntactic-context))))
> (setq align (- align indent))))
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< (if (< (point) (c-point 'boi))
---
> (cond ((> align 0)
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> (insert (make-string align ? )))
> ((< (point) (c-point 'boi))
> (back-to-indentation)))
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< )
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