Re: [Caml-list] Tuareg mode: Indentation of application arguments

[Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>]

Le 21/09/2012 22:11, Kristopher Micinski a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Romain Bardou<romain.bardou@inria.fr>  wrote:
>>> a configuration variable to change this behavior.  (BTW, do you know
>>> that M-q re-indent the current expression, so re-indenting after a name
>>> change is effortless.)
>>
>>
>> I know about M-q but I disagree that it is effortless: if you change a
>> variable name, and this name is used in N places, you have to go to all
>> those N places and re-indent there. Note that those N places can be
>> different files.
>>
>
> Hmm.... why don't you simply try an indent-buffer, ...?
>
> http://emacsblog.org/2007/01/17/indent-whole-buffer/
>
> If I have a large amount of stuff I need to reindent I either select
> and indent-region, or write some elisp to hack things up as needed..
>
> kris

Thank you for your input, Kristopher.

One big issue I have with indent-buffer (and also with M-q, actually) is 
that it will reindent stuff I have indented by hand to bypass some rules 
of Tuareg I don't like.

Even if I had an "indent correctly and instantly all files of my 
project" button, I still would not find the current indentation rule for 
application acceptable. I believe that good indentation rules should not 
rely on automation to actually be usable.

I'm not fluent at all with elisp and that's not something I am really 
interested in learning.

That's just personal taste really though.

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou