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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el
index 60d8fa591e9..1b700afd12d 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@
;; error because the parser just automatically does something. Better yet,
;; we can afford to use a sloppy grammar.
+;; The benefits of this approach were presented in the following article,
+;; which includes a kind of tutorial to get started with SMIE:
+;;
+;; SMIE: Weakness is Power! Auto-indentation with incomplete information
+;; Stefan Monnier, <Programming> Journal 2020, volumn 5, issue 1.
+;; doi: 10.22152/programming-journal.org/2020/5/1
+
;; A good background to understand the development (especially the parts
;; building the 2D precedence tables and then computing the precedence levels
;; from it) can be found in pages 187-194 of "Parsing techniques" by Dick Grune
@@ -63,6 +70,7 @@
;; Since then, some of that code has been beaten into submission, but the
;; smie-indent-keyword is still pretty obscure.
+
;; Conflict resolution:
;;
;; - One source of conflicts is when you have:
@@ -1356,9 +1364,9 @@ Only meaningful when called from within `smie-rules-function'."
(funcall smie-rules-function :elem 'basic))
smie-indent-basic))
-(defun smie-indent--rule (method token
- ;; FIXME: Too many parameters.
- &optional after parent base-pos)
+(defun smie-indent--rule ( method token
+ ;; FIXME: Too many parameters.
+ &optional after parent base-pos)
"Compute indentation column according to `smie-rules-function'.
METHOD and TOKEN are passed to `smie-rules-function'.
AFTER is the position after TOKEN, if known.
@@ -2112,10 +2120,9 @@ position corresponding to each rule."
(throw 'found (list kind token
(or (nth 3 rewrite) res)))))))))
(default-new (smie-config--guess-value sig))
- (newstr (read-string (format "Adjust rule (%S %S -> %S) to%s: "
- (nth 0 sig) (nth 1 sig) (nth 2 sig)
- (if (not default-new) ""
- (format " (default %S)" default-new)))
+ (newstr (read-string (format-prompt
+ "Adjust rule (%S %S -> %S) to" default-new
+ (nth 0 sig) (nth 1 sig) (nth 2 sig))
nil nil (format "%S" default-new)))
(new (car (read-from-string newstr))))
(let ((old (rassoc sig smie-config--buffer-local)))