Re: Indentation in Emacs

[Rune Zedeler]

Chris Jackson wrote:

> I'm trying to adapt some emacs lisp to do indentation for lilypond

Great! I have been hoping for this for ages, haven't taken the time to
do it myself.


>     {
>        [something]
>         }

Please align matching brackets when they are alone on a line.
I.e.


{
   [something]
}


> even though, a ( b c d ) e f g already indicates a phrasemark in plain
> lily.  Then there's beaming marks [] as well, these might be treated

Yes. Remember that "[ ( ] )" is legal in lily. Don't know whether it is
possible to explain that to emacs.

> Any other ideas? I suppose many people have developed their own lilypond
> formatting styles anyway in the absence of auto-indent.

Don't treat "->" as end-bracket (scheme and accent compatibility).

Hardcore syntax colouring would include i.e. colouring failed barchecks
red (depending on the last time statement in the file), higlighting
simultainous notes as in 
< { c4 d8 e } {f8 g a b } >
when cursor on the d, the a gets highlighted.

Allign command indenting naighbouring lines so that music falling on the
same beat is vertically alligned (to use with one-measure-per-line
editing)
i.e. calling "allign" on
{
  c4 d8-"foo" e |
  f8 g a b |
}
gives
{
  c4   d8-"foo" e |
  f8 g a        b |
}

Just my quick ideas. Knowing that I was not covering only indentation.

-Rune