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29.0.60; c-ts-mode auto-indent not working

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>
Cc: 61502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com, pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org
Subject: bug#61502: 29.0.60; c-ts-mode auto-indent not working
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:30:48 +0200

> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:14:46 +0100
> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>
> CC: pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org, casouri <at> gmail.com, 61502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >Look back for the first line that has something other than whitespace?
> 
> Yeah, we could. But what then with
> 
> for (
>      ;;)
> |
> 
> ?
> 
> Not saying it's impossible, but we will get complexity that may be hard to get into emacs-29, i think.

At some point we will have to rely on electric characters to fix the
indentation later.  We just need to try to fix the more blatant and
simple situations, I think, and punt (for now) where it becomes hairy.

I wonder, though: what do other IDEs which use tree-sitter do in these
cases?

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