In emacs, how do I align closing parentheses with the start of the opening line?

Question

The default indentation style for multi-line function calls in many emacs modes is to align the closing round bracket with the other arguments to the function, thus:

function_one(
    arg1,
    arg2
    );

I would prefer it if the closing bracket aligned with the start of the line that contains the opening bracket. For example:

function_one(
    function_two(
        f2_arg1,
        f2_arg2
    ),
    f1_arg2,
    f1_arg3
);

How do I do this?

Answer 1

• For the many modes derived from CC Mode (for example, c-mode, java-mode, php-mode), customise c-offsets-alist so that arglist-close is set to c-lineup-close-paren.
• For cperl-mode, customise cperl-indent-parens-as-block to true.
• For cperl-mode, GNU Emacs 24.3+, set cperl-close-paren-offset to the negative of cperl-indent-level
• For perl-mode in GNU emacs 24.3 and greater, customise perl-indent-parens-as-block to true.
• For python-mode, this behaviour is found in GNU emacs 24.3 and greater.

You can customise a variable by typing M-x customize-variable. Alternatively, add the following lines to your ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'c-offsets-alist '(arglist-close . c-lineup-close-paren))
(setq cperl-indent-parens-as-block t)
(setq perl-indent-parens-as-block t)