How to indent/autoformat HOCON in EMACS?

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Haven't found a way to indent/autoformat HOCON config files. What is you way here?

You can try `kotlin-mode`, reindent, then `conf-mode`. – Adobe Mar 04 '21 at 20:01 — Adobe, Mar 04 '21 at 20:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '16 at 19:33

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I'm fairly certain there isn't an Emacs major mode for HOCON. But it looks like it's similar to JavaScript, so you can make .hocon load as JavaScript by adding this to your .emacs:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.hocon\\'" . javascript-mode))

answered Jul 25 '16 at 19:33

Brian Malehorn

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Unfortunately it looks similar to JS, but it isn't similar enough :) – Andrew Gaydenko Jul 25 '16 at 21:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '21 at 18:29

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I think it's quite similar to the syntax of HCL. You might be interested in using emacs-hcl-mode for editing HOCON files.

answered Sep 24 '21 at 18:29

Rickyson

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How to indent/autoformat HOCON in EMACS?

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