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Here's how emacs indents e.g. Python code:

a = myfun(b, c)

I'd like it to be this way:

a = myfun(b, c)

Reasoning? If I later replace myfun with myfunction, in the first case it becomes:

a = myfunction(b, c)

I can probably use aggressive-indent-mode, but not everybody uses emacs. If I'd like to contribute to, say, an open source project, I can't just impose it on other people.

Is there a way out? For Python? Ruby? Or Javascript? Any of these?

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  • What's your setting for indent-tabs-mode? Not sure it's relevant here, but maybe. Commented Jul 6, 2020 at 23:10
  • I believe python-mode sets it to nil. In javascript buffers it's t. In both cases the behavior is as described above. Commented Jul 6, 2020 at 23:24
  • The usual solution is to add a newline before b. This works in all Python/Ruby/JS major modes. Commented Jul 8, 2020 at 2:03
  • Yeah, that solves it to an extent. And there seems to be no way to override it. At least not for Python. Commented Jul 8, 2020 at 19:55

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Reset to default
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You might want to stick to the defaults, since:

r = my_long_function_name( param1, param2)

is arguably preferable over:

r = my_long_function_name(param1, param2)

But if you care (Emacs 26.3), for Python:

(eval-after-load "python" (lambda () (fset 'old-python-indent--calculate-indentation (symbol-function 'python-indent--calculate-indentation)) (defun python-indent--calculate-indentation () (save-excursion (pcase (python-indent-context) (`(,:inside-paren . ,start) (goto-char start) (+ (current-indentation) python-indent-offset)) (_ (old-python-indent--calculate-indentation))))) ;; Alternatively, use advice-add ;; (defun my/python-indent--calculate-indentation (orig-fun &rest args) ;; ... ;; (apply orig-fun args)) ;; (advice-add 'python-indent--calculate-indentation :around #'my/python-indent--calculate-indentation) ))

For Javascript:

(setq js-indent-align-list-continuation nil)

For Ruby I tried to monkey-patch the Ruby mode, but by default it uses smie-indent-line. Which in its turn might be used not only by the Ruby mode. And I didn't see a better way than to copy the smie-indent-keyword and fix a thing or two. But I'm far from understanding how it works, so I decided to go with the Enhanced Ruby Mode. After installation, you need to add:

(require 'ruby-mode) ;; https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/59782/autoloaded-variable-overrides-the-one-from-the-init-file#comment93779_59782 (setq auto-mode-alist (mapcar (lambda (x) (if (eq (cdr x) 'ruby-mode) (cons (car x) 'enh-ruby-mode) x)) auto-mode-alist)) (setq interpreter-mode-alist (mapcar (lambda (x) (if (eq (cdr x) 'ruby-mode) (cons (car x) 'enh-ruby-mode) x)) interpreter-mode-alist))

Then to fix the indentation:

(setq enh-ruby-deep-indent-paren nil)
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