Question

In Emacs, using ruby-mode, I can’t find a way to stop this happening:

foo = if something?
        42
      else
        7
      end

When our in-house conventions are:

foo = if something?
  42
else
  7
end

(Same goes for begin..end and case..when).

Also, while it’s less of a nuisance, our convention for case..when is to indent each when.

case whatever
  when foo
    "a"
  when bar
    "b"
  else
    "c"
end

I know people generally say you should align the when with the case, but it’s not the convention of our company, so does anybody know how to customize this too? I can find very little customization for ruby-mode. The only thing I’ve really been able to customize is the indentation inside parentheses.

Answer 1

There is no way to customize this. ruby-mode is pretty barebone as far as indentation customizations are concerned and Matz (its original author) is totally adamant in supporting the standard style for case indentation.