GNU bug report logs - #21922
Indentation of Emacs Lisp list constants is surprising

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:31:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 27646

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Alexander Shukaev <emacs <at> Alexander.Shukaev.name>
Cc: 27646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27646: Bug: Emacs Lisp Indentation
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:58:44 -0500

tags 27646 - moreinfo unreproducible
forcemerge 21922 27646
quit

Alexander Shukaev <emacs <at> Alexander.Shukaev.name> writes:

> to the "*scratch*" buffer and indent to observe the following result
>
> (dolist (symbol '(ignore-errors
>                    xxx
>                    yyy)))
>
> The reason why this happens is because `ignore-errors' is a macro that has
>
> (declare (indent defun))
>
> Any other macro with the same declaration whose innocent symbol is
> used as the first element in a list would reproduce the above
> indentation bug.  Backquote is also affected.

That's Bug#21922, although the backquoted case is intentional (e.g., for
writing code in macros).
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