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Auto-Indent for parentheses and operators?
Submitted by Anonymous on Sunday, 12 September, 2004 - 22:08
Is there a way to get jEdit to auto-indent using certain characters on the previous line as a guide? E.g. not having to press tab or make leading spaces while typing:
if(a == b
   && a == c
   && b !=c)
  cout << "Oh my god, " << endl
       << "this makes no sense!" << endl
       << ((1 + 2 + 3
            + 4 + 5 + 6)
           / 20.0) << endl;
emacs does some of this in it's c++ mode: '<<' automatically aligns with the first '<<' on the previous line, and anything after an unmatched '(' auto-aligns with the character after that '('. Or maybe you have to press tab to prompt it, but then it automatically finds the correct place to put it.

jEdit seems cooler than emacs, though, so it would be nice if there was a way to get it to do this! It would save a lot of time for me...if it's not possible now, would this sort of thing be possible with a plugin?
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"Deep Indent"
by Anonymous on Fri, 11/03/2005 - 22:01
If you turn on "Deep Indent" while also using auto-indenting, jEdit will do this. However, I've yet to find a way to specify *which* characters to use for auto-aligning---I think it may be language-mode specific.

I use Python mode almost exclusively, which auto-aligns to open parens ( '(' characters) but nothing else. I probably use this for parens more than I woudl for any other single character, but it'd still be nice to have the option for '[' and '{'.

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