Re: Support for whitespace prefix for :noweb-prefix

[Ihor Radchenko]

Doerthous <doerthous@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I think that a more general approach could be allowing :noweb-prefix to
>> have a value of string that will be appended to each line on the
>> expansion.
>
> With the use case discussed before, is allowing :noweb-prefix to have a
> value of string means I need to provide a string with 5 space
> characters to :noweb-ref like this?

> #+begin_src elisp :noweb yes :noweb-prefix "     "
>   (let (<<varable-bindings>>)
>     <<do-something>>)
> #+end_src

Yes.

I still feel that what you are really looking for is major-mode-specific
indentation, not a prefix. Because indentation may require tabs, not
spaces. Or may interfere with programming language.

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