bug#8576: 23.2; js-mode doesn't support multi-line variable declarations

[Felix H. Dahlke]

On 06/08/2012 01:04 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Personally, I think that's the desirable behavior, but you should keep
> in mind that this will require the indentation engine to look ahead in
> the buffer and account for the case when there's no text after the
> point, for example.
> Suppose the first value function actually has a non-empty body, and
> we're just typing the code for the first time.
> Even if we're using a snippet package that inserted "function() {}"
> for us, we will type the important comma after "}" only when the
> function body is written, and then we'll have to go back to reindent
> the body again.
>
> I think that's acceptable, but that's not how indentation functions in
> Emacs usually work.
You're right, it's harder than I thought. I'm currently looking for
similar problems in other modes and see how they handle it.