bug#21922: bug#27646: Bug: Emacs Lisp Indentation

[Alexander Shukaev]

On 17/01/2020 18:58, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> tags 27646 - moreinfo unreproducible
> forcemerge 21922 27646
> quit
>
> Alexander Shukaev <emacs@Alexander.Shukaev.name> writes:
>
> > to the "*scratch*" buffer and indent to observe the following result
> >
> > (dolist (symbol '(ignore-errors
> >                     xxx
> >                     yyy)))
> >
> > The reason why this happens is because `ignore-errors' is a macro that has
> >
> > (declare (indent defun))
> >
> > Any other macro with the same declaration whose innocent symbol is
> > used as the first element in a list would reproduce the above
> > indentation bug.  Backquote is also affected.
>
> That's Bug#21922, although the backquoted case is intentional (e.g., for
> writing code in macros).

I use the following trick right now:

(dolist (symbol '(;
                  ignore-errors
                  xxx
                  yyy)))

Since it's impossible to resolve that issue reliably and for all cases 
including backquote, I propose to introduce some special comment (aka 
;###list) format to indicate that this is a list rather than code to be 
evaluated.  In different contexts the same code could be desired to be 
treated differently namely either as data or as to be evaluated.