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

[Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>
> 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,

I completely understand that: indentation is something that requires
human intelligence (and good indentation is an art rather than
science).

For the same reasons I do not indent a whole buffer at once, usually..

FYI some open source projects have as part of their build process a
call to GNU indent, super annoying when indentation is not as you
describe..

That being said, if there is a part of tuareg mode that you need to
modify to accommodate your needs (the change of a variable name, as
you mention), hacking on the elisp might be preferable.  And yes, I
understand emacs lisp is this somewhat scary and involved language,
more for reasons related to emacs (as an API) rather than anything
having to do with lisp.. :-/

kris