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27.0.50; An indentation problem with const and chaining in js-mode
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On 2022-03-18, at 02:12, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 14.03.2022 12:13, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> On 2022-03-14, at 10:40, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> When declaring a const variable which is assigned a value of a long,
>>>> chained expression, the default indentation is wrong (compared to a let
>>>> declaration):
>>>>
>>>> let a = /regex/
>>>> .test('regex hello');
>>>>
>>>> const a = /regex/
>>>> .test('regex hello');
>>>
>>> I think this is the intended indentation? That is, they indent to where
>>> the "a" is.
>> Well, in a tab-only indentation style (used by many people, me
>> included)
>> this is _very_ wrong, e.g. because it results in Emacs using both tabs
>> and spaces here.
>
> I'm fairly certain it's not a very popular style, but we should try to
> cater to it as well, of course.
Interesting - I thought using spaces for indentation is a no-no nowadays
(at least in JS, Lisp is another thing, for obvious reasons). But I may
be mistaken, and I don't think tabs are inherently better - though we do
use them in our company.
>
>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> This is the temporary solution I employed:
>>>>
>>>> (setq js--declaration-keyword-re "\\<\\(let\\|var\\)\\>")
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest turning this variable into a user option.
>>>
>>> This isn't just used for indentation, so altering this const will lead
>>> to other breakages (and so it shouldn't be customiseable, either).
>> Grep apparently disagrees - I found 5 occurrences of
>> `js--declaration-keyword-re' in Emacs sources, and all of them seem to
>> be related to indentation. So, I don't see any danger here. (Anyway,
>> I changed it in my init.el; we'll see how that works.)
>
> I think it would be better to add a more semantically-named user option.
Definitely, the name
>
> This indentation feature was ported from js2-mode at some point, where
> it is guarded by the (on by default) user option
> js2-pretty-multiline-declarations. The option itself was lost in
> transition.
>
> See js2-old-indent.el for more info.
Very interesting. FWIW, I almost never have many variables in a single
let/const - I prefer to write
let a = 1;
let b = 2;
const c = 3;
const d = 4;
(and this also is a style I learned where I work).
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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