Re: Indentation of current line or selected blocks in the code editor?

[Torsten]

On 08.11.2017 20:25, John W. Eaton wrote:
> The tree_print_code thing only works if there are no errors when parsing
> the code.  Otherwise, you don't end up with a valid parse tree.
> 
> Also, the parse doesn't generally preserve any whitespace, so as it is
> now, using the parse tree to format the code wouldn't just indent code,
> it would also do things like change spacing around operators and
> reformat code blocks.
> 
> I think we need something that just indents and doesn't try to reformat
> everything and that will do a best-guess indentation even if there are
> some syntax errors.
> 
> It might be easier to pipe the text to Emacs and ask the Octave mode to
> indent the line or region.  :-)
> 
> jwe
> 

There is some smart indentation while typing
(octave_qscintilla::smart_indent). Maybe we can use parts of it for
"offline" adjusting the indentation.

Torsten