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23.3; flet indentation

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: akater <nuclearspace <at> gmail.com>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, mattiase <at> acm.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 9622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9622: [PATCH] Re: bug#9622: 23.3; flet indentation
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:04:11 +0000

akater <nuclearspace <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Note that using `common-lisp-indent-function` as `lisp-indent-function` in
>> emacs-27.2 make `cl-flet` and friends indent properly, with a few more
>> settings for `cl-loop` indentation it is perfect, did I miss something?
>
> In general, the languages are different and rules should be expected to
> be different.  cl- indenter takes care of #(..) and so on which is
> meaningless in Elisp.
>
> I also think common-lisp-indent-function should not attempt to indent
> cl- stuff and likewise lisp-indent-function should not indent plain flet
> and so on because plain ones are “officially deprecated”.
>
> It would make more sense to have a generic sexp indenter and
> dialect-specific indenters that inherit from it.  But inheritance
> practices in Emacs is in terrible shape: inheritance mechanisms have
> been reinvented in incompatible ways since forever.

Thanks for explanations, make sense.

-- 
Thierry

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