Re: Emacs vs pg_indent's weird indentation for function declarations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Emacs vs pg_indent's weird indentation for function declarations
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Msg-id 7659.1548653310@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Emacs vs pg_indent's weird indentation for function declarations  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Emacs vs pg_indent's weird indentation for function declarations  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> For a while I've been baffled by that: the first arguments of later
> lines don't line up with that of the first line, but they're also not
> in a constant column (it varies from function to function), and it's
> also not caused by 8-space vs 4-space confusion.  It was only when I
> put those two things next to each other just now in this email that I
> finally spotted the logic it's using: if you remove "extern int " then
> the later lines line up with the first argument of the top line.  This
> works for other examples I looked at too.  Huh.

Yeah.  I suspect that the underlying cause is that pgindent doesn't
really distinguish function declarations from definitions, at least
not when it comes time to indent the lines after the first one.

> That's ... annoying.  I wish indent wouldn't do that, because it means
> that my declarations get moved around every time I write code.

If you can fix it, I'd vote for accepting the patch.  I don't personally
have the desire to dig into the indent code that much ...

            regards, tom lane


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