Be (optionally) able to skip map alignment by inserting blank lines

[vemv]

clojure-mode intentionally supports that behavior clojure-emacs/clojure-mode#481 (comment) , so it'd be good that Cursive did too:

• for avoiding discrepancies;
• and also it's a quite desirable feature. Map alignment for e.g. project.clj is rather meaningless and it makes it more difficult to meet a max column length (like 80).

Thanks - Victor

[cursive-ide]

I've asked over on the clojure-mode issue what the logic is there so I can figure out how hard this would be to implement.

[vemv]

In that thread you asked:

How does this work? What is the logic that's applied?

Now that the issue has been closed clojure-emacs/clojure-mode@9127dc4 , I can more confidently say:

clojure-mode doesn't have a fine-grained/custom logic for this. Emacs has the align-region built-in command, which docstring you can query here:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/d0c77a189423dbf648ca5ae9d831a5a2e04e6947/lisp/align.el#L1273

So the working is basically:

• determine a region (selection) from sexp-beginning to sexp-end (e.g from line-1-column-4 to line-2-column-9)
• invoke align-region to with those parameters
• if align-region finds a blank line (or more specifically: a line matching a user-supplied regex), it does nothing.

Hope it helps!