[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 18.10.3snapshot [<unknown>]; Indenting in stata mode seems to call ess-indent-line in an infinite loop

[Brendan Halpin]

On Thu, Mar 14 2019, Alex Branham wrote:

> Now the question becomes: Do we want to "fix" this? It seems a little
> crazy to me that stata-mode relies on R's indentation engine. We could
> just let stata-mode use Emacs's default indent-line-function (which is
> indent-relative) and add a note about this in the NEWS.

I would prefer something that indents appropriately within loops, and
after line continuation markers:

forvalues i = 1/5 {
    di "`i'"
}

line y x, lc(red) ///
    yscale(log)

I may be getting it wrong, but I don't think indent-relative will do this.

Regards,

Brendan
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