Indentation is weird when writing multi-lines lists about elm-mode HOT 4 CLOSED

The indentation code tends to add a new level on newline-and-indent. Please see the README note about indentation cycling. The gist of it is, every time you get an indentation level you don't expect you should be able to get the one you want simply by hitting tab.

Based on your screenshot, you might also be having issues because your usage of , is somewhat non-standard. The indenter would've worked better had you formatted your lists like this:

div [ id "container ]
  [ pageHeader
  , entryList
  , pageFooter
  ]

Hope that helps! Let me know if any of this is confusing and I'll try to explain it better :)

from elm-mode.

I think this is the same issue I am having when I move code between buffers.

Example:

this is the starting point:

dock = foldp updateDocks Dict.empty ships

I want to move these lines from one buffer to the one above (i.e. kill then yank)

port coordinates  : (Int,Int)
port incomingShip : Signal { name:String, capacity:Int }
port outgoingShip : Signal String

I will now paste these three lines of code below the first line:

dock = foldp updateDocks Dict.empty ships

       port coordinates  : (Int,Int)
                           port incomingShip : Signal { name:String, capacity:Int }
                                               port outgoingShip : Signal String

Marking the region and executing indent-region seems to cause the same issue.

from elm-mode.

I want to move these lines from one buffer to the one above (i.e. kill then yank)

This is not standard behavior. Your setup must be calling indent-region after inserting the text. If you use spacemacs make sure you add elm-mode to spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes.

Marking the region and executing indent-region seems to cause the same issue.

The way we handle indentation right now makes indenting a region that contains multiple top-level definitions particularly problematic because, like I mentioned above, we tend to add a new level on each line and we don't distinguish between top-level definitions and everything else. I would say that if you want to use indent region try to limit yourself to one such definition at a time.

from elm-mode.

I'm closing this for now. Feel free to re-open it if you have any other questions.

from elm-mode.