bug#43559: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add csharp support to cc-mode

[Theodor Thornhill]

Hello, Alan!

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

[...]

>
> I don't see a reason why there shouldn't be a C# Mode directly in Emacs.
>

The current csharp mode is now rewritten, and I've gotten almost
everything to work nicely apart from one issue, and I was hoping that
you could help me figure it out, or point me in the right direction.

I described it here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg01975.html

However, The lambda case is now fixed, but with a patch to emacs
itself:

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diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el b/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
index 4e336c0a06..b415e4b821 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
@@ -12011,7 +12011,8 @@ c-looking-at-inexpr-block
                         (> (point) closest-lim))
                  (not (bobp))
                  (progn (backward-char)
-                        (looking-at "[]).]\\|\\w\\|\\s_"))
+                        (or (looking-at "[\]\).]\\|\w\\|\\s_")
+                             (looking-at ">")))
                  (c-safe (forward-char)
                          (goto-char (scan-sexps (point) -1))))
 
@@ -12085,7 +12086,11 @@ c-looking-at-inexpr-block
                          (setq passed-bracket-pairs 1)
                          (setq bracket-pos (point))))
                      'maybe)
-                 'maybe))))
+                 'maybe)
+               (if (or (looking-at "([[:alnum:][:space:]_,]*)[ \t\n]*=>[ 
\t\n]*{")
+                       (looking-at "[[:alnum:]_]+[ \t\n]*=>[ \t\n]*{"))
+                   ;; If we are at a C# lambda header
+                   (cons 'inexpr (point))))))
 
       (if (eq res 'maybe)
          (cond
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This patch lets CC Mode detect the lambda case for C#. I know this is a
patch specific to C#, but I could not find anywhere or anyhow this would
work without these lines.  With them, the indentation in case 1 in the
mentioned link works perfectly.

Maybe this (or something similar) could be eligible for inclusion in CC
Mode, to account for that lambda syntax. I know many other C-like
languages uses similar syntax, so I believe it could be useful for
someone else as well.

Have a nice evening!

--
Theodor Thornhill