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28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables starting with `def' in let form

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables starting with `def' in
 let form
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:10:46 +0200

In the scratch buffer, enter

(let ((defa
       foo)))

and reindent the second line.  Emacs will insert an additional space
before `foo' so that the `f' is now below the `e'.  This seems to happen
only for variables starting with `def' (but not `def' itself).


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Message #8 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:26:27 +0200

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In the scratch buffer, enter
>
> (let ((defa
>        foo)))
>
> and reindent the second line.  Emacs will insert an additional space
> before `foo' so that the `f' is now below the `e'.  This seems to happen
> only for variables starting with `def' (but not `def' itself).

Yes, the Emacs Lisp indentation machinery assumes that everything that
starts with "def" is a macro that defines something.  That's pretty
quirky, but it's been that way since forever, so it's probably too late
to do something about that now.

It should, however, be possible to do something about this in a `let'
form, you'd think.  But I've tried to find the place where this happens
(I was looking at it just the other day!), but my grep skills fail me.

Anybody remember which function this happens in?

-- 
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Message #11 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50;
 Incorrect indentation for variables starting with `def' in let form
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:35:46 -0400

forcemerge 33301 43329
quit

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

> Yes, the Emacs Lisp indentation machinery assumes that everything that
> starts with "def" is a macro that defines something.
[...]
> Anybody remember which function this happens in?

lisp-indent-function (see https://debbugs.gnu.org/33301#15)

Message #16 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:57:05 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> lisp-indent-function (see https://debbugs.gnu.org/33301#15)

Ah, yes, there it is:

(defun lisp-indent-function (indent-point state)
[...]
	(cond ((or (eq method 'defun)
		   (and (null method)
			(> (length function) 3)
			(string-match "\\`def" function)))
	       (lisp-indent-defform state indent-point))

I think the general idea here is to indent everything that starts with
"(def" as a macro, but in

(let ((defa
       foo)))

that's obviously not the case here.

Would something as simple as the following (which fixes this use case)
be the correct fix?  It only indents these forms as macros if they are
top-level...

("make check" signals no errors with the change in place.)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
index 352210f859..a324846336 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
@@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ lisp-indent-function
 	(cond ((or (eq method 'defun)
 		   (and (null method)
 			(> (length function) 3)
+                        (= (syntax-ppss-depth state) 1)
 			(string-match "\\`def" function)))
 	       (lisp-indent-defform state indent-point))
 	      ((integerp method)


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Message #19 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:48:21 -0400

> Would something as simple as the following (which fixes this use case)
> be the correct fix?  It only indents these forms as macros if they are
> top-level...

It obviously has the downside of not indenting properly those
definitions which are not at the very-top level.  E.g. definitions
inside an `eval-when-compile` or other.


        Stefan

Message #22 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:44:45 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Would something as simple as the following (which fixes this use case)
>> be the correct fix?  It only indents these forms as macros if they are
>> top-level...
>
> It obviously has the downside of not indenting properly those
> definitions which are not at the very-top level.  E.g. definitions
> inside an `eval-when-compile` or other.

That's true.  I guess the (def* calls can happen at any level, really.

But the (def* thing is a heuristic, and we could say that we only use
that heuristic at the top level?

We should then mark all the (def* things we have in-tree with explicit
indentation marking (which I think we should do anyway, really).

-- 
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Message #25 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:24:43 -0400

> But the (def* thing is a heuristic, and we could say that we only use
> that heuristic at the top level?

We can replace one heuristic with another, yes.
That exchanges misindentationss for other misindentations.

> We should then mark all the (def* things we have in-tree with explicit
> indentation marking (which I think we should do anyway, really).

Indeed (and I think we've been getting there bit by bit.  Not sure how
far we stand from that nowadays).  Of course, that won't help with

    (let ((defvar
           3))
      (+ defvar 5))

and other oddball cases ;-)


        Stefan

Message #28 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:20:47 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Indeed (and I think we've been getting there bit by bit.  Not sure how
> far we stand from that nowadays).

João suggested over on bug#33301 to only make the heuristic happen for
macros, and I was sceptical, but:

> Indeed I don't know how to proceed.  There seem to be around 34. 
> Add indent specs for these 34 symbols? I suspect that some have exclusively
> one-line uses that don't need them.

So 34 in-tree functions that start with "def", but an unknown number of
macros.  That's not a lot, and I think we should add indent specs to all
of them, including the macros.

> Of course, that won't help with
>
>     (let ((defvar
>            3))
>       (+ defvar 5))
>
> and other oddball cases ;-)

Heh, no.

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Message #31 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43329: 28.0.50; Incorrect indentation for variables
 starting with `def' in let form
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:23:33 +0200

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

> So 34 in-tree functions that start with "def", but an unknown number of
> macros.  That's not a lot, and I think we should add indent specs to all
> of them, including the macros.

I've now gone through all the functions that have names that start with
"def" and marked the ones that should have `defun' indent explicitly.
I'll do the macros next, and then we can remove the heuristic.

This will change how out-of-tree code indents, though.  This can be
fixed by out-of-tree packages doing markup, but is there some way we can
make the transition kinder?  (I don't think so, though.)

-- 
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Message #36 received at 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 33301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 43329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#33301: 27.0.50; broken elisp indentation for non-definition
 symbols starting with "def.."
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:00:43 +0200

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

> This will change how out-of-tree code indents, though.  This can be
> fixed by out-of-tree packages doing markup, but is there some way we can
> make the transition kinder?  (I don't think so, though.)

I've now pushed this change to Emacs 29.

-- 
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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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