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indent configurations in emacs cider/paredit/clojure-mode

In an Emacs/Cider setup (which is build on top of clojure-mode and paredit-mode), tab stops are usually ignored. Or, say they indent just to the second symbol of an s-expression.

Sometimes, e.g for larger configurations, it's desirable to indent also the subsequent symbols:

This would be the default:

(def config [:hello 34 :goodbye
             :a 34 :c
             :long-word 0 :a])

What is to do, if it should look like:

(def config [:hello      34   :goodbye
             :a          34   :c
             :long-word  0    :a])
Solution

  • Emacs will not align the elements in vector as you wish, however, you can use M-i (tab-to-tab-stop) to insert tab (or multiple spaces depends on your config). So you can manually align the elements like the way you like.