Re: indentation

[Tassilo Horn]

Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

Hey Wayne,

>> FWIW, I'd write your example as
>>
>> \noindent {\em Notation.} As we often write polynomials in finite rings of
>> characterisc 2, let's define
>> \[
>>   \poly(x) = ...
>> \]
>> in the same way that it was used in the introduction.
>>
>> which is indented according to how AUCTeX would do it or the builtin
>> `latex-mode' if `latex-indent-within-escaped-parens' is t.
>
> Thank you.  I had no idea what was going on there.  Clearly the root
> cause of the problem is not understanding what is going on.  That's
> life:

Absolutely!

> I took a while to begin using paredit-mode precisely for not being
> able to minimially live with it, but it's been really worth it to try.
> (I use it constantly now.)  Maybe the same will happen with
> electric-indent-mode.

Possibly.  If you want to, you might also want to try the
`aggressive-indent' package (from MELPA; its minor-mode is
`aggressive-indent-mode') which is essentially `electric-indent-mode' on
steroids, i.e., it indents the current function according to the mode's
rules on every edit which makes it completely impossible to fight
against the mode's indentation rules.  (Of course, aggressive-indent is
mostly suited with programming modes; it works very well with lisp.)

Bye,
Tassilo