Re: Indentation of def*

[Po Lu]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Can't you just use this?
>
>     (declare (indent defun))

I could, but I was just demonstrating that a large amount of code
depends on the previous behaviour in order to be indented nicely.

> And shouldn't you be using that in any case, to make your intention more
> clear, and avoid relying on a fundamentally brittle heuristic?

If it's a heuristic that worked (at least, AFAIR) in Emacs 18, then I'm
usually inclined to trust it.  (And I considered it smart at the time,
when I first discovered it).