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[James Brierley]

On 10/11/13 21:55, Lex Trotman wrote:
> We have had long discussions about configurable approaches, but any that
> seem to provide a useful improvement also seem to add just as many
> annoying erroneous situations.
>
> PS just a note that most methods seem to fail with things like
> indentation for lines that are continuations of expressions, function
> calls and similar situations.  Or they only work if you use one specific
> style of source layout such as GNU style.  Or they fail to respect
> manually set indentation for situations above.

Personally I think the existing system works fine. Snippets with tabs 
configurable to display at any width, with the option to convert to 
spaces, is ideal for me. The existing ability to set the tab width, or 
whether to insert spaces as tab, in a filetype definition is ideal. 
That’s all the language-specific indentation I need.

In my experience, over-aggressive ‘style enforcers’ are an annoyance 
more often than they are a help. A case in point being Emacs, where 
there seems to be no single option to set any single brace style for 
*all* C-like languages except that personally endorsed by Richard 
Stallman. That was the main reason Emacs went in the bin for me.

‘Unindentation’ as per Doug’s request would be nice to add to snippets, 
if it’s feasible, but apart from that the existing system treads the 
right line between being a helping hand and treading on your toes. Like 
most things in Geany, which is why I use it. If I wanted text editing to 
feel like wrestling Leviathan I’d use vi or Emacs... :)

Anyway, just my two cents, but getting back to Doug’s request, adding 
something like

[Lua]
then=then\n\t%cursor%
else=else\n\t%cursor%
do=do\n\t%cursor%

to snippets.conf approximates what he was asking for, minus unindentation.

James

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