Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

[Patrick McCarty]

2009/11/12 Frédéric Bron <address@hidden>:
>> I've been there (had patches rejected because of bad indentation) and I
>> remember the pain it was to completely reindent the file (as part of that
>> process I learned to use the automatic indentation in vim).  But my code is
>> easier to read (which is *really* important for Scheme code IMO), so it's
>> worth the hassle.
>
> I have been there too but I still do not understand scheme indentation
> which does not help me understand the code (on the contrary it makes
> it harder to read).
> But I know from programming that everybody has its own style of
> indenting and it is good practice that in a project the same
> indentation style be applied. However, I am using vim and .scm code is
> not automatically recognized and indented. Can you provide your method
> to correctly indent with vim?

I recently posted a custom configuration I use with Vim to help with
formatting Scheme.  You can find it here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-11/msg00058.html

If you have any questions about it, let me know.

-Patrick