[ESS] how to make close-parens indent identically to close-brace?

Murat Tasan mmuurr at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 20:58:54 CET 2014


Amaze!

Thanks!

-Murat

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have just added a new indentation control variable
> `ess-close-paren-offset`. This is the doc:
>
>      "Extra indentation for closing parenthesis.
>    When a number, adjustment is made with respect to the opening
>    parenthesis taking into account the value of
>    `ess-arg-function-offset-new-line'. With N = 0:
>
>    some.function(arg1,
>                  arg2
>                  )
>
>    When list of of form '(N), where N is a number,
>    adjust with respect to the indentation of the line containing an
>    opening parenthesis. With N = 0:
>
>    {
>        some.function(arg1,
>                      arg2 = X
>        )
>    }
>
> You would probably like to set it to '(0).
>
>  Vitalie
>
>  >>> Murat Tasan on Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:05:23 -0700 wrote:
>
>  > Ah, yeah, I hadn't thought of auto-insertion of closing braces (as I
>  > always keep such auto-insertions off).
>
>  > The common style (closing all parens at end of expression) works fine
>  > until one finds themselves n functions deep in nesting (where n is,
>  > say, > 3).
>  > Adding optional arguments during development then becomes a serious chore.
>
>  > This is particularly noticeable when using some R paradigms/frameworks
>  > like Shiny, where nearly all presentation-control functions take
>  > nothing but ... arguments, and where each argument itself is usually a
>  > function that takes more ... arguments.
>
>  > Is the code behind ess-dont-vertically-align-closing-paren on a
>  > development branch of ESS?
>  > I'd love to give it a try :-)
>
>  > Cheers,
>
>  > -murat
>
>  > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> It could be added as there is now a separate treatment of closing paren
>  >> (ess-calculate-indent--closing-paren). But I would be a bit cautious of
>  >> that behavior. A widely accepted style is to leave closing parents at
>  >> eol after the last statement.
>  >>
>  >> The biggest disadvantage of } is the interaction with the auto-insertion
>  >> of closing }.  Whenever you type RET before the closing brace, {|}, you
>  >> get indented at the beginning of line till you insert some ore text and
>  >> re-indent. There was even a complaint on this list some time ago.
>  >>
>  >> As parenthesis are more common, I personally would be very annoyed by
>  >> being indented to wrong place each time I insert a new line after an
>  >> opening paren.
>  >>
>  >> Vitalie
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> >>> Kevin Ushey on Sun, 7 Dec 2014 20:40:15 -0800 wrote:
>  >>
>  >> > Doh. Sorry, I lied -- that option was something that I had worked on
>  >> > locally but didn't make it into ESS proper. But I recall Vitalie took
>  >> > this work and allowed for this control... hopefully he will have a
>  >> > response.
>  >>
>  >> > Sorry,
>  >> > Kevin
>  >>
>  >> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> >> Hi Murat,
>  >> >>
>  >> >> There was a new option added for this recently -- see
>  >> >> `ess-dont-vertically-align-closing-paren`. You can use `(setq
>  >> >> ess-dont-vertically-align-closing-paren t)` to toggle it.
>  >> >>
>  >> >> FWIW, I have this in my `.emacs` to configure the ESS indentation to
>  >> >> my liking; it should give you a starting place to configure for your
>  >> >> own preferences.
>  >> >>
>  >> >> (setq ess-ac-R-argument-suffix " = ")
>  >> >> (setq ess-use-auto-complete t)
>  >> >> (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
>  >> >> (lambda ()
>  >> >> (local-set-key (kbd "<s-return>") 'ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step)
>  >> >> (show-paren-mode t)
>  >> >> (setq ess-indent-level 2)
>  >> >> (setq ess-first-continued-statement-offset 2)
>  >> >> (setq ess-continued-statement-offset 0)
>  >> >> (setq ess-arg-function-offset 2)
>  >> >> (setq ess-arg-function-offset-new-line 2)
>  >> >> (setq ess-dont-vertically-align-closing-paren t)
>  >> >> ))
>  >> >> (ess-toggle-underscore nil)
>  >> >>
>  >> >> Cheers,
>  >> >> Kevin
>  >> >>
>  >> >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Murat Tasan <mmuurr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> >>> Hi all ---
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> Does anyone know how to force ESS to treat closing parentheses like
>  >> >>> closing braces when writing multi-line statements?
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> An example is:
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> ## existing default indentation
>  >> >>> list(
>  >> >>> a = 1:10,
>  >> >>> b = 10:1,
>  >> >>> )
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> But in such cases, where the open-parens is followed immediately by
>  >> >>> whitespace/newline, I'd really like the indentation to be like braces.
>  >> >>> I'd settle with just having the closing parens match up to the start
>  >> >>> of the call, rather than the open-parens, though:
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> ## treating parens a bit more like braces
>  >> >>> list(
>  >> >>> a = 1:10,
>  >> >>> b = 10:1,
>  >> >>> )
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> Has anyone ever written such a modification for ESS?
>  >> >>> (My Elisp is nowhere near sophisticated-enough to know how to specify
>  >> >>> this type of rule myself :-/ )
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> Cheers,
>  >> >>>
>  >> >>> -murat
>  >> >>>
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