Notice:

This project is now deprecated in favour of the alignment features in clojure-mode 5.1.

See: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode#vertical-alignment

Description:

'align-cljlet' is an emacs addin for aligning let-like forms. This program exists because I was tired of manually aligning let statements in Clojure. This program is designed to quickly and easily allow let-like forms to be aligned. This is my first emacs lisp program and as a result if probably less than optimal. Feel free to suggest improvements or send in patches.

This program was inspired by align-let.el although only borrows one function from that code. I had considered altering align-let.el to work correctly with Clojure however it was easiler to simply start from scratch.

Forms currently handled:

• let
• when-let
• if-let
• binding
• loop
• with-open
• literal hashes {}
• defroute
• cond
• condp (except :>> subforms)

If there are let pairs together on the same line the code will refuse to align them. For example, the following will not align:

(let [apple 2 pair 3
      peach 23] ...)

will not be aligned.

Custom variables:

defroute-columns The number of columns to align in a defroute form.

Known limitations:

• This program requires clojure mode to be running in order to function correctly.
• Does not currently align condp forms that use the :>> symbol.

Installation:

To use align-cljlet.el, add it to your load-path and include the following to your .emacs configuration.

(require 'align-cljlet)

Alternatively you may install this package from Marmalade.

Usage:

To invoke simply position anywhere inside an alignable form and invoke:

M-x align-cljlet

You may wish to bind this to a specific key.

Contributors

• Glen Stampoultzis
• Reid D McKenzie