Re: cl-functions do not honor common-lisp-indent-function

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Helmut Eller <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 26 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>>     Why should anything other than `common-lisp-indent-function'
>>     implement the Common Lisp conventions?
>
> E.g. to avoid conflicts: some other language might have similar but not
> quite the same conventions and to avoid the risk of conflicts you
> re-implement some of the conventions.
>
>>  > > If the user thinks of these symbols as equivalent
>>  > > to "real" Common Lisp standard symbols, then the user has every right
>>  > > to ask Emacs to treat them as Common Lisp symbols.
>>  > 
>>  > An Emacs Lisp user or for that matter a Scheme user has not "every
>>  > right" to dictate the indentation rules for Common Lisp users.
>>
>> Of course users of other Lisp dialects should not dictate to Common
>> Lisp users.  But I was talking about *Emacs* users.  I don't have any
>> trouble imagining that some Emacs users who program in both Common
>> Lisp and cl.el would like to see cl-* expressions follow the
>> corresponding Common Lisp conventions.  After all, the OP is evidently
>> an example.
>
> When I'm programming Emacs Lisp I use emacs-lisp-mode and I assume that
> the default indentation function, i.e. lisp-indentation-function, will
> handle all relevant macros.
It is not handling all these macros/functions, so what do we do ?

> I fail to see why using common-lisp-indent-function in emacs-lisp-mode
> is such a bright idea.
Because emacs-lisp-mode we may use common-lisp style functions (flet,
labels etc...).
So when you indent e.g a flet clause with emacs-lisp style it is indented
badly.

> Helmut
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