[Geany-Devel] Why smart indentation is so stupid?

[Tory Gaurnier]

I use the "smart indentation" feature and I think it works fine the way it is. It may not be perfect, but in most cases it does exactly what it's supposed to. 

On July 25, 2014 3:28:21 PM PDT, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>On 14-07-25 01:01 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>> Le 25/07/2014 21:33, Pavel Roschin a écrit :
>>> I'm very wondered how does "smart indentation" feature work. If
>previous line
>>> is empty, it removes indent assuming that single empty line is an
>empty indent.
>>> Smart indentation for multiple lines is absolutely awful: it doesn't
>take into
>>> account internal sub-indents and makes selection "flat".
>>
>> It's a lie, this feature isn't smart, it just sets the same
>indentation
>> than the previous line.
>>
>>> Is anybody using this?
>>
>> I doubt it
>>
>>> Under "smart" indentation people assume astyle, php-beautifier and
>so on:
>>>
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18828162/smart-auto-indentation-available-in-geany
>>
>> Yeah, we know we should have a nice (and complex) system for
>> configurable smart indentation, but every time we tried to think
>about
>> it we discovered that some languages are so crazy that it's really
>not
>> simple, and probably would require some specific code for some
>languages
>> (did I say Haskell?).  And nobody did the filetypes plugins yet :(
>>
>> However, you might be able to use some indenters tools from Geany
>using
>> custom commands to some extent.  In a similar way, I once started a
>> multi-indernters plugin, but I didn't finish it for various reasons,
>one
>> being my lack of much interest in it (I'd rather work on a solution
>for
>> configurable and nice thing for Geany than on wrapping gnuindent,
>astyle
>> or others, tools I never really used).
>> If anyone is interested, it's here: https://github.com/b4n/grind
>>
>
>And for "smart" indentation/formatting, I have written a plugin which 
>works with C, C++, Objective-C (and I think I remember they talked
>about 
>JS support) by using clang-format. See:
>
>http://codebrainz.github.io/code-format/
>
>Cheers,
>Matthew Brush
>
>
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