Re: What would you say is the most-used way of indenting case labels

["Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>]

On 8/11/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> > That is, is this style:
> >
> > case something in
> > (*ome*)
> >   ... ;;
> > esac
> >
> > more common than
> >
> > case something in
> >   (*ome*)
> >     ... ;;
> > esac
>
> I use Emacs sh-script mode and I end up with things looking like this
>
> case foo in
>   (bar)
>   do_foo_bar
>   ;;
>
>   (rod)
>   do_foo_rod
>   ;;
> esac
>
> which is pretty much your second option, except there's no additional
> indentation after the test and the separate ;; serves
> as a visual end marker (like a "break" in C)

Hm, actually, my examples were a bit flawed.  It should have been:

case something in
 (*ome*)
   ...
 ;;
esac

But it seems that that kind of indenting is oncommon.  Argh, so many
choices, so little to gain.

> The only consensus seems to be the "(bar)" test is indented from the
> "case".

Actually, I found quite a few cases where "(bar)" wasn't indented from
the "case", so that's why I asked.