Indent wierdness.

[Hugh Sasse]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 
> >    def metaclass; class << self; self; end; end
> 
> Problem with counting of def and class versus ends.  We only see things
> at the beginning of the line.

Ok, that makes sense.  
> 
> So don't write it in the shrivelled-up-I’m-in-a-book kind of way;

:-) I pasted it from the web.

> instead, write it as:
> 
> 
>   def metaclass
>     class << self; self; end
>   end

that'w what I did and it works for that case.
> 
> That won’t fool the indenter.  Perhaps we can rewrite the regular
> expressions to do this kind of stuff, but I don’t remember if there were
> issues with doing so.
> 
> If you want, please try redefining s:end_start_regex so that it can find
> the ‘class’ in the above example as well.  That’d solve a lot of issues.
> Perhaps my reasoning has been far too restrictive when it comes to that
> variable.  You can try something like
> 
> let s:end_start_regex = '\%(^\|[^.:]\)\@<=\<\%(module\|class\|def\|if' .
>         \ '\|for\|while\|until\|case\|unless\|begin\|do\)\>'

OK, I don't knwo when I'll get chance to explore this, but now
you've told me what to look at it is much more feasible for me.
Thank you.
> 
> and report back on how that works.  It solves the issues you were having
> now, but please verify that it doesn’t introduce something nasty....
> 
> Thanks,
>         nikolai
> 
        Thank you,
        Hugh