From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T22:11:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Very Newbie Question

On Monday, March 17, 2003, 11:41:48 PM, Ragweed wrote:

> does a syntax/facility to wrap long expression lines exist in ruby

> eg

> fred = amy + bill
>         + clara + dora
>         + eddid

> rather than

> fred  = amy + bill + clara + dora + eddie


I'll make a slightly-related comment.  I've spent several hours trying
to coerce Vim into indenting the following code as is (assuming a
shiftwidth setting of 2):

  x = a +
    b + c

Vim in fact wants to indent it like this:

  x = a +
  b + c

Not Very Nice.  Of course, the fact that Ruby has no explicit
statement separator makes life difficult for this sort of thing.

I'm just informing the list of this so that if there is a Vim
superuser out there looking for a challenge, I've got one, and am
only to happy to collaborate if necessary.  My several hours haven't
been in vain, but I don't believe I have releasable code.

Any comments on how FreeRIDE handles indenting in general and this
case in particular would be interesting.

Cheers,
Gavin