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From: sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: C++-mode and public: (was abbrevs)
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.000710.17543@julius.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 00:07:10 GMT
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fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) writes:

>I have a problem with the version of c++-mode.el beginning like that:
>  ;; C++ code editing commands for Emacs
>  ;; 1987 Dave Detlefs  (dld@cs.cmu.edu)
>  ;; and  Stewart Clamen (clamen@cs.cmu.edu).
>  ;; Done by fairly faithful modification of:
>  ;; c-mode.el, Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman.
>  ;;
>  ;; Feb, 1990 (Dave Detlefs, dld@cs.cmu.edu)
>  ;;   Fixed electric-c++-terminator to handle double colons, at the
>  ;;   request of John Hagerman.

>I'm a lazy typist (seems that C++ is too verbose for me), so I defined
>mode-abbrevs like "reg" for "register", "pub" for "public" etc.
>This works fine except in one case:

>class Foo {
>  pub
>     ^ cursor is here

>When I hit the ":" key, "pub" is correctly expanded to "public:", but
>it is not moved to the beginning of the line:

>class Foo {
>  public:

>What I would like to see is:

In general, using the same variable to define the indentation of the
case: and the others public: or normal labels is a bit inconvenient.

I want case: indentation of -4, but public: and any other labels
flush to the left. ( The best thing would be a table of label words
and indentations. ( Since C++ is sure to have more of these as we go along :-))

Is there a quick fix for this?

Thanks

Aamod Sane
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