On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:14 PM, abp <abp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Why is it necessary to press TAB at all? Couldn't auto-indent be the > default for a line and only manually reindented lines opt-out until > one opts in again using TAB or something?
This is an interesting thought. On the other hand, when lines are merged or split, where does this status go? I'm thinking when a line is split the second of the two resulting lines should start out indented correctly relative to the first, and inherit the first's status; when two lines are merged, the status of the first of the two becomes the status of the merged line. This is consistent with the status being an invisible metacharacter at the start of the line that is deleted with the immediately preceding newline and cloned if enter is hit in the middle of that line. What about multi-line pastes? If the paste is of material cut or copied from inside clooj, the status of each line that was cut or copied would be stored OOB somewhere and used for the paste. (Actually using funny extra characters inline in the copied material has problems if material is copied from clooj and pasted into something else, such as a post to this list.) From outside clooj? Some sensible default, such as autoindent off (keep paste's formatting) or on (auto-fix to context). Maybe let the user choose either in an options screen. Saving the state across sessions also seems to need to be OOB. Putting it in the .clj file at the start of each line would gum up other tools, and adding clooj-internal comments to source files isn't much better. A clooj.dat file in the project root? Alternatively, avoid the mess and just always maintain structure-determined indent of all lines at all times. Does anyone really want fully user-controlled indenting outside of comments anyway? Spaces and tabs in the indent can just jump you to the start of the forms on the line, and self-insert normally in string literals and in ; comments, and single spaces normally anywhere (maybe turn tabs into spaces and tab or space next to a space just moves you to the right of the space). Or, the traditional thing: full control, but tab or something will reindent the current line, or all lines intersecting the selection if any, to structurally-correct positions based on all of the code above, if tab is hit outside a string literal or ; comment. -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
