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Re: 'smart' indentation


From: Ole Laursen
Subject: Re: 'smart' indentation
Date: 10 Mar 2003 21:02:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> [...]
> > Usually, Emacs does syntax-driven indentation.  This means that it
> > groks the syntax of your programming language and then uses the right
> > indentation level.
> [...]
> 
> Does that imply that other editors don't have syntax driven
> indentation???

I think most haven't, at least not for more than one or two languages.
It's not trivial to implement. I think most fake it like
indent-relative.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/


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