Jason (jcreed) wrote,
Jason
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The way per-language auto-indentation works in emacs is really no small amount of black magic, apparently. Either you're lucky and you have a C-like language and you can sorta reuse c-mode, or else you write it all yourself (I think julialang did this from what I can tell) or else you use SMIE, which can do a lot for you, but it feels like giving well-intentioned vague suggestions to a feral indentation-djinn.
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