I'm using Emacs as my main Haskell editor, and as such, I of course use haskell-mode
as the main mode for editing Haskell code.
Now for whatever reason, haskell-indentation
doesn't offer an indent point for function arguments.
What I mean is that Emacs will consistently do this: (□
is the other indent point(s))
myFunction = maybe arg1 □ arg2 □ arg3
Instead of doing this:
myFunction = maybe arg1 □ □ arg2 □ □ arg3
Sometimes I need to break functions up onto multiple lines due to the lines getting too long, but not having haskell-mode
offer the right indent level is bugging me some.
Anything I can do to alleviate this?
Seeing as I'm not the only one with this issue, I've opened a ticket on the haskell-mode
github page [here]
Even though the consensus among Haskell programmers is that meaningful indentation leads to better-looking code, understanding how to convert from one style to the other can help understand the indentation rules.
No, Haskell indentation is not like Python. Haskell is not about indentation levels, it's all about making things line up with other things.
The haskell-indentation haskell-mode issue was closed last year and won't be fixed.
For desired behavior, use haskell-indent.
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