Re: LSP vs Emacs indentation [

[Tassilo Horn]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

>> Where the 'eglot-newline-and-indent-according-to-mode' has to calculate
>> the expected indentation. I don't understand how we'd expect the
>> formatters to do that indentation for us. They only care about code
>> already written, not code yet to be written. So if we'd have to
>> calculate that offset anyway, do we win much?
>
> Your "newline-and-indent" function could insert some bogus code
> (probably "bar;" or "bar();") and ask LSP to format that, then delete
> the bogus code.

I think the problem here is that this function would need to know at
least some syntactically valid code to insert which depends on the
language.

Bye,
Tassilo