[Geany-Users] Ruby indent not working

[Sayth Renshaw]

On Friday, January 18, 2013, Colomban Wendling wrote:

> Le 17/01/2013 21:28, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> > On 17 January 2013 23:02, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Not sure if I have missed something Ruby specific
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, sort of, or rather Geany has missed something, Ruby specific
> > support for indenting :)
> >
> > Geany autoindent is almost language independent, it knows how to:
> >
> > 1. go to the same indent as last line
> > 2. indent and unindent on { and }
> > 3. as a special case only, indent on : in Python
> >
> > None of these will work for Ruby IIUC.
> >
> > What it needs is for someone to specify the algorithm, and to provide
> > a plugin that implements it (such language specific stuff shouldn't be
> > in core)
>
> No, I think that what's needed is a configurable indentation thing, like
> what Jiří and I somewhat started at different times, but didn't finish
> for some reasons.  I (or somebody else ;)) should get back on that
> subject and try to get something working for real, Geany's
> auto-indenting is useless in most non-brace language (but Python as you
> noted), which is sad.
>
> Cheers,
> Colomban
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Can I ask a question about this. Geany is based in scintilla I believe so
is scite. When geany didn't work I tried the latest scite and it indented
perfectly.

Why the difference ?

Sayth
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