A code base I work on has the macro
#define when break; case
to make switch statements 'cleaner'
However this causes problems with indentation,
Is it possible to set the behavior of 'when' to be the same as 'case'?
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The promoted way would be to add a new cc-mode with c-add-language (see the example ) linked in cc-langs.el. But that is a bit heavy for the task at hand.
It is simpler to add when as a font lock keyword and as a matcher in c-labels-kwds-regexp.
You can use the following c-mode-hook:
(defun my-c-setup ()
"Run in `c-mode-hook'."
(font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("when" . 'font-lock-keyword-face)))
(setq c-label-kwds-regexp (replace-regexp-in-string "case" "case\\\\|when" c-label-kwds-regexp)))
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook #'my-c-setup)
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Thanks this worked, after I removed the '#' from the add-hook part. I haven't done much elisp. Is that a typo or something that I'm missing the point of? – Mitchk Jun 18 at 23:58
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@Mitchk The sharp quote
#'stands for wrapping the quoted form with(function ...). You should use it everywhere you could syntactically replace the function symbol (heremy-c-setup) with a lambda. See the item about sharp quotes in Section "Functions" of the Elisp style guide and also the corresponding discussion. There is also a nice article from Malabarba about that. – Tobias Jun 19 at 1:54
