The position of the braces might be a red herring here. I was mostly interested in figuring out how to increase the indentation level from 1 to something larger. Even an indentation step of 2 for each level would be easier on the eye than 1.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Asim Jalis <asimja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there an easy way to increase the indent of pprint data structures >> from 1 to something like 2 or 4? I've been searching on Google and >> going through the docs and don't see anything. >> >> For example, I would like the following command to produce something >> closer to "output 2" than to "output 1". > > Just curious, is your background Java or some similar C-style language? > > I ask because folks coming from that sort of background tend to want > braces and parentheses on separate lines and fixed indentation whereas > the Lisp crowd tend to want trailing braces and "natural" indentation, > i.e., continuation lines are indented so elements line up: > > (somefn arg1 > (f arg2)) > > If I got that right the (f... should line up with arg1 above it. > > It took me a while to get used to the "Clojure way" of code/data > layout but now I tend to avoid commas and just go with the flow of how > pprint or my IDE wants to format stuff and I like the concise > consistency. > > Sorry that doesn't answer your question but I hope it helps explain > why the default pprint output looks the way it does? > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
