Artistic Style indenter/formatter take #2

[Roberto Alsina]

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 Tal Davidson wrote:
> 
> >Moreover,while it does make sense to reindent on a per-line basis, it
> >seems rather strange to reformat on a one-line basis. 
> 
> You mean you want to reformat the whole buffer each time the
> user presses 'RETURN'? Does not sound very clever. Where does
> the performance go?
> 
> >(Actually, emacs does NOT have reformatting ability, and I wish emacs
> >had the ability to globally REINDENT a buffer (although perhaps this is
> >possible with some Emacs LISP programming)).
> 
> It's no problem at all.

FTE does just that.
It autoindents as you type, and can reformat a selected block.
Of course if anyone can find how it's done from the sources, he's much
smarter than I am :-)

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