Re: [ jEdit-devel ] About autoindent...

[<dmo...@gm...>]

Hello Slava,

On Sunday, July 22, 2001, 3:58:48 AM, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:57:22PM +0200, Dirk M=F6bius wrote:
>> Would it help to have the block regexps match only the text of the
>> current line=3F I'm not sure I understand your idea completely...

> What I meant was that you could have something like this:

> blockStart=3D"\<begin\>"
> blockEnd=3D"\<end\>"

> in Pascal mode, for example. However, to unindent the line as soon as
> 'end' is typed, you would need to match the current line against the
> blockEnd regexp with every character typed; which is very inefficent.

... and I wouldn't use such a feature, because I would find it
annoying that the "end" word jumps around.

Maybe we could steal ideas from Emacs (20 yrs of development should
somehow evolve the best solution...): Let there be some set of
electric chars; if you hit one of them, the current line is indented.

For Java (and Pascal), this would be "}", ";" and "<Return>". For
Python, this would be just "<Return>".

Add the ability to configure the "electricity" of each of the chars.
Because I wouldn't want <Return> to be electric in all of my modes.


Dirk.