GNU bug report logs - #36240
indent-code.el is not aware of (package (inherit ...)) style

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From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: indent-code.el is not aware of (package (inherit ...)) style
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:07:02 +0200

When encountering a package definition that starts

  (package (inherit other-package))

etc/indent-code.el will indent the rest of the package body
to align with the start of (inherit. That seems to be a
common idiom, used in roughly half of the instances:

guix/gnu/packages$ git grep '(inherit ' | wc -l
905
guix/gnu/packages$ git grep '(inherit ' | grep package | wc -l
425

Message #8 received at 36240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Cc: 36240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36240: indent-code.el is not aware of (package (inherit ...))
 style
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:39:00 +0200

Hi Robert,

Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:

> When encountering a package definition that starts
>
>   (package (inherit other-package))
>
> etc/indent-code.el will indent the rest of the package body
> to align with the start of (inherit. That seems to be a
> common idiom, used in roughly half of the instances:
>
> guix/gnu/packages$ git grep '(inherit ' | wc -l
> 905
> guix/gnu/packages$ git grep '(inherit ' | grep package | wc -l
> 425

It’s a corner case, and one of the reasons I (and others, I think) are
now usually writing:

  (package
    (inherit p)
    …)

I’m not sure we can teach Emacs the other rule; maybe sometimes we have
to accept limitations like this one.  :-)

Ludo’.

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