11.5 Other Special Indentations

To configure macros which you invoke without a terminating ‘;’, see See Macros with semicolons.

Here are the remaining odds and ends regarding indentation:

User Option: c-label-minimum-indentation

In ‘gnu’ style (see Built-in Styles), a minimum indentation is imposed on lines inside code blocks. This minimum indentation is controlled by this style variable. The default value is 1.

It’s the function c-gnu-impose-minimum that enforces this minimum indentation. It must be present on c-special-indent-hook to work.

User Option: c-special-indent-hook

This style variable is a standard hook variable that is called after every line is indented by CC Mode. It is called only if c-syntactic-indentation is non-nil (which it is by default (see Indentation Engine Basics)). You can put a function on this hook to do any special indentation or ad hoc line adjustments your style dictates, such as adding extra indentation to constructors or destructor declarations in a class definition, etc. Sometimes it is better to write a custom Line-up Function instead (see Custom Line-Up Functions).

The indentation engine calls each function on this hook with no parameters, with point somewhere on the pertinent line, and with the variable c-syntactic-context bound to the current syntactic context (i.e. what you would get by typing C-c C-s on the source line. See Custom Brace Hanging.). Note that you should not change c-syntactic-context or point or mark inside a c-special-indent-hook function; thus you’ll probably want to wrap your function in a save-excursion50.

Setting c-special-indent-hook in style definitions is handled slightly differently from other variables—A style can only add functions to this hook, not remove them. See Style Variables.


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The numerical value returned by point will change if you change the indentation of the line within a save-excursion form, but point itself will still be over the same piece of text.