Re: inferior-lisp mode indenting problem

[John Paul Wallington]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Lowell <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
>
>> The auto-indenting of 'if' clauses in inferior-lisp mode is not
>> working properly.
[...]
>> How can I change it?
>
> (put 'if 'lisp-indent-function 0) will get you:
>
> (if test
>     then
>     else)
>
> But beware that most other people reading your code will find this
> style annoying.

To get proper indentation of Common Lisp code without clobbering
conventional Emacs Lisp indentation you could do something like so:

(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
   (lambda ()
     (set (make-local-variable lisp-indent-function)
          'common-lisp-indent-function)))