[Geany-devel] Indentation using regex (was [PATCH 14/19] Rewrite tab switching queue)
Jiří Techet
techet at xxxxx
Thu Sep 16 20:17:42 UTC 2010
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 19:27, Thomas Martitz
<thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 16.09.2010 02:23, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jiri,
>>
>> I couldn't get this to work at all, it printed "calling indent this
>> line" all the time but didn't indent :-(
>>
>> I only had half an hour so I couldn't investigate much.
>>
>
> I have the same experience. Auto-indentation doesn't seem to work anymore
> (e.g. when hitting enter after on a line that ends with {, or when typing
> }).
I have just re-tested it again and it works on my machine (I have
forgotten one trace in the code - that's what you see in the console).
A quick question: have you read the commit log?
This patch makes it possible to specify several regex patterns for every
filetype which determine under what condition the indentation is performed.
The pattern variables are specified under the [settings] section of the
given filetype and their value is the regex to be used. The variables are
as follows:
* indent_this_line_regex - the match is performed after every keystroke
and if the regex matches, the indentation is performed on the current
line
* indent_next_line_regex - the match is performed only when enter is
pressed. The indentation is applied on the next line
* unindent_this_line_regex - like indent_this_line_regex but
unindents instead
* unindent_next_line_regex - like indent_next_line_regex but indents instead
Comments and strings are detected from the lexer so these can be ignored
inside the patterns. For instance these are very basic rules for GNU
indent style:
indent_next_line_regex=^.*\\{[[:blank:]]*$
unindent_this_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]*\\}$
indent_this_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]+\\{$
unindent_next_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]*\\}[[:blank:]]*$
By commenting-out the last two lines you get ANSI indentation style.
If you replace \\{ and \\} with begin and end, respectively, you
get analogous rules for pascal. Notice the double-escaping of { and } -
the first escape sequence is for the keyfile ini format (so for the
regex itself \\ becomes \).
This means that in order to make it work e.g. for C, you have to edit
~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.c
(or the corresponding file under /usr/local/share/geany) and add
indent_next_line_regex=^.*\\{[[:blank:]]*$
unindent_this_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]*\\}$
indent_this_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]+\\{$
unindent_next_line_regex=^[[:blank:]]*\\}[[:blank:]]*$
under the [settings] section (+ restart geany). Please let me know if
it works (but also in the opposite case ;-).
Jiri
>
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