Delay for running dtrt-indent

[orlandini]

When using functions such as projectile-replace, every time I visit a buffer dtrt scans the file for detecting the indent. Is there a way to set a delay for this to happen?

I am often visiting 300+ files at a time, and it would be great if dtrt-indent didn't try to set the c-basic-offset unless I stayed in the buffer for half a second, for instance.

[rrthomas]

There isn't a way. It sounds like this should be possible with some more generic feature, like, instead of adding dtrt-indent-mode to a hook, add a function that delays it? Also, it sounds to me like there might be other things you want to delay.

[orlandini]

While I'm sure it'd be great to delay other things, I should say that dtrt-indent was certainly noticeable.

I don't have enough lisp knowledge to think of a way to deal with it, but should I find something I will comment here in case somebody is interested.

Should I close the issue then?

[rrthomas]

Feel free to keep it open!

[jscheid]

Not exactly what you asked for @orlandini but how about enabling it just before first indent? That seems even better to me than a delay. Something like this appears to work:

(require 'dtrt-indent)

(add-hook
 'pre-command-hook
 (lambda ()
   (when (and (not dtrt-indent-mode)
              (memq this-command
                    `(,indent-line-function
                      ,indent-region-function
                      ,(key-binding "\t")
                      indent-according-to-mode
                      indent-region
                      indent-sexp)))
     (dtrt-indent-mode 1))))

Could probably be optimized slightly, and there might be a few corner cases (functions not included in the list) but shouldn't be too hard to make work reliably.

@rrthomas I'm going to use this for a while, if it holds up perhaps this would be a nice feature. Something like dtrt-indent-lazy-flag. It could optionally be buffer-local which would let you set lazy mode depending on major mode, say.

[orlandini]

@jscheid im looking forward to testing it! Thanks a lot.

[rrthomas]

@jscheid How did your experiment go?