RE: Indentation

> > Put the following in your .emacs to get the indentation in 
> your 2nd example:
> > 
> >   (setq lisp-indent-function 'common-lisp-indent-function)
> 
> Thank you, that did it.
> 
> One other small point: I get these two variants, depending on whether
> I have one or several of the arguments/keywords on the same line as
> with-open-file. This is the same for defun etc. also. Probably a
> trivial setting in .emacs? For some functions who has a very special
> first argument the first version is perhaps what some people want? I
> think I prefer the last of these two, so I would want the arguments to
> line up under the first one always. (Or is there a good reason for the
> first of these two?)

If you download clisp-indent from the clisp distribution, you can get 
that type of indentation (and, what some consider better indentation
than what is provided by the normal common-lisp-indent-function). 
It is in the /emacs directory of the distribution. Once you copy it 
into your load-path, just add the following to your .emacs:

(require 'clisp-indent)

If you just want to modify the with-open-file indentation, adding
the following lines to your .emacs file from clisp-indent should do it 
for you (not tested):

(defmacro defindent (operator indentation)
  `(put ',operator 'common-lisp-indent-function ',indentation))

(defindent with-open-file ((&whole 4 1 &rest 1) &body))

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Bill Clementson