[slime-devel] Re: [patch] a way to specify custom Emacs indentation right in the Lisp source

[Michael Livshin]

Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> writes:

> Can't you do that with Emacs' file local variables?  E.g.

not exactly.  here I'm mostly concerned with _other_ files that use
the macro (indeed, at least in my code, such macros tend to _never_ be
used in the file they are defined in).  so to have this scheme be
useful, it'd be required either to replicate the local-eval form in
every file that uses the macro (or in some "<foo>-tweaks.el" file on
the side, I guess), or to have the macro-defining file be open in
Emacs.

> This way we wouldn't need to put anything into *features*.

this was a minor point, of course.

> and the file could also be edited without connected Lisp.

the present &BODY-based macro indentation logic also requires
connected Lisp, so no change there.

just to be clear: the patch (if the puny little thing can even be
called that) is there mostly to illustrate an idea.  it's small enough
for me to maintain it quite painlessly in my local checkout of Slime
for the foreseeable future, so I'd hate for anyone to feel under any
kind of pressure to react to this as something to be either included
in Slime or not.  I think it would be cool if someone came up with a
better idea, really.

thanks,
--m