From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@csr.com>
Cc: "Zsh Users' List" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: What would you say is the most-used way of indenting case labels
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:47:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860608110547y53146fc8saf232b84601aa3c1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608111110.k7BBAuwM017362@news01.csr.com>
On 8/11/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> "Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> > That is, is this style:
> >
> > case something in
> > (*ome*)
> > ... ;;
> > esac
> >
> > more common than
> >
> > case something in
> > (*ome*)
> > ... ;;
> > esac
>
> I use Emacs sh-script mode and I end up with things looking like this
>
> case foo in
> (bar)
> do_foo_bar
> ;;
>
> (rod)
> do_foo_rod
> ;;
> esac
>
> which is pretty much your second option, except there's no additional
> indentation after the test and the separate ;; serves
> as a visual end marker (like a "break" in C)
Hm, actually, my examples were a bit flawed. It should have been:
case something in
(*ome*)
...
;;
esac
But it seems that that kind of indenting is oncommon. Argh, so many
choices, so little to gain.
> The only consensus seems to be the "(bar)" test is indented from the
> "case".
Actually, I found quite a few cases where "(bar)" wasn't indented from
the "case", so that's why I asked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-11 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-11 10:54 Nikolai Weibull
2006-08-11 11:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-08-11 12:47 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2006-08-11 12:48 ` Nikolai Weibull
2006-08-11 14:22 ` Phil Pennock
2006-08-11 19:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-08-12 15:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-08-12 16:44 ` Wayne Davison
2006-08-13 14:17 ` Phil Pennock
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