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From: phs@lifia.UUCP (Philippe Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: lisp-indent-hook question, and other hooks       (GNU Emacs)
Message-ID: <2884@lifia.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 11:24:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: lifia.2884
Posted: Mon Sep 28 11:24:42 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 04:16:41 EDT
Reply-To: phs@lifia.UUCP (Philippe Schnoebelen)
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   Customizing the indentation behavior of a given Lisp symbol is very easy
with GNU Emacs: one just has to change the lisp-indent-hook property of the
symbol. Well, this is easy in some cases, depending on what you  are trying
to  achieve.  My  problem is  with   Common Lisp's  "flet"  (or  labels  or
macrolet). What Emacs gives is something like that:

	(flet ((function1 (x y z)
			  (body1)
			  (...))
	       (function2 ()			(Fig. 1)
			  (body2)
			  (...)))
	  (flet-body)
	  (...))

while I would prefer

	(flet ((function1 (x y z)
		 (body1)
		 (...))				(Fig. 2)
	       (function2 ()
		 (body2)
		 (...)))
	  (flet-body)
	  (...))

   This does not fall into any of the three main styles of Lisp indentation
for which it is  easy to customize  GNU  Emacs,  and thus it   becomes very
complicated  to obtain it. Of course,  it is possible  to obtain  it (it is
always possible: you have the source :-), simply it is not at  all easy, so
much that I've never really tried to do it ...

   Have you written such a lisp-indent-fletform ? In such a case, would you
accept to share it ? I think  it would be useful for  every Lisp programmer
working with GNU Emacs because I cannot  imagine someone accepting (Fig. 1)
in  his programs ! I  even think this  should  be  included into GNU Emacs,
because  automatically indenting  Lisp programs has  always  been  done  by
emacses. Thanks in advance.


   Still about hooks, I was disappointed to see that there  is no  (I mean,
not yet any) fundamental-mode-hook ! How  can I  automatically edit any new
file in ABBREV-MODE ?

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