Version History

See also the user visible changes for 5.28.

Note: This was an unfinished interim release that was never publicly announced.

• Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.

  The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.

  This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.

• New syntactic symbol substatement-label. This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and its substatement. E.g:

  if (x)
    x_is_true:
      do_stuff();

• Better handling of multiline macros.

  • Syntactic indentation inside macros: The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new variable c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros. A new syntactic symbol cpp-define-intro has been added to control the initial indentation inside #define's.

  • New lineup function c-lineup-cpp-define, which is now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works much line c-lineup-dont-change, which was used earlier, but handles empty lines within the macro better.

  • Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one. This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to c-context-line-break and c-context-open-line.

  • Better alignment of line continuation backslashes. c-backslash-region tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New variable c-backslash-max-column which put a limit on how far out backslashes can be moved.

  • Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes. This is controlled by the new variable c-auto-align-backslashes. It affects c-context-line-break, c-context-open-line and newlines inserted in auto-newline mode.

  • Line indentation works better inside macros. Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the backslash) in the macro.

• The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through the variable c-indent-comment-alist. The indentation behavior is based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after #else and #endif but indentation to comment-column in most other cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).

• New function c-context-open-line which is the open-line equivalent of c-context-line-break.

• New lineup functions:
  • c-lineup-cascaded-calls lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
  • c-lineup-knr-region-comment gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
  • c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg provides better indentation inside asm blocks. Contributed by Kevin Ryde.
  • c-lineup-argcont lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma. Contributed by Kevin Ryde.

• Better caching of the syntactic context.

  CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind) of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.

  The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic context.

• Statements are recognized in a more robust way. They are handled even when they occur in an "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can happen when macros are involved.

• Improved the way c-indent-exp chooses the block to indent. It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent. Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current line is left untouched.

• Added toggle for syntactic indentation. The function c-toggle-syntactic-indentation can be used to toggle syntactic indentation.