Re: Handling macro-ized braces

[Paul S. <ps...@gn...>]

On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 21:32 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> One slight irritation will be that there are no "electric" characters
> (such as ";", "(", ...) in "FOR_CLOSE", so there is nothing to cause
> it to indent automatically at EOL.

Yes I did notice that.  I either have to reindent by hand or add a
semicolon (then delete it again, if I want "clean" code).

> If you are using GNU Emacs, you could hitch "FOR_CLOSE" and friends
> onto the abbreviation setup, which is designed to reindent keywords
> like "else" and "while" (as part of do while).  You'd need code
> something like this:
> 
> (abbrev-table-put c-mode-abbrev-table ':regexp "\\s \\(\\(\\sw\\|_\\)+\\)")
> (define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "FOR_CLOSE" "FOR_CLOSE"
>   'indent-according-to-mode '(:case-fixed t))

I'm not so familiar with abbrev details.  What is the purpose of the
first line, setting the :regexp property?

Thanks Alan!