Im an emacs newbie, I want emacs to be able to indent my code like this
egg = spam.foooooo('vivivivivivivivivi')\
.foooooo('emacs', 'emacs', 'emacs', 'emacs')
It's not possible to do this automatically by default (without manually inserting spaces or C-c >), since emacs always indents 4 spaces (unless Im splitting multiple arguments over multiple lines).
Whats the best approach to do this?
PS: If this is a bad idea (against PEP 8 or something) please do tell me
That's pretty ugly and would require you to write some emacs lisp. I need to learn emacs lisp so if it wasn't so ugly, I would probably be up for doing it. But it is and I'm not. Looks like you get to learn emacs lisp :) (if you actually want to do this). I'm sort of jealous. At any rate, you said that informing you that this is a bad idea was an acceptable answer so here goes:
That's a terrible stylistic choice. Isn't
egg = spam.foo('viviviv')
egg = egg.foo('emacs', 'emacs', 'emacs')
easier to read?
While not specifically against PEP 8, it is mentioned that use of the line continuation character should be kept to a minimum. Also, this most definitively and objectively goes against the spirit of PEP 8. I'm just not sure how ;)