diff --git a/NEXT.md b/NEXT.md
index f0d0c03..18791e1 100644
--- a/NEXT.md
+++ b/NEXT.md
@@ -286,9 +286,11 @@ BUILT.md, "The colon belongs to keys".
 
 **What it left for the Emacs lane, both verified.** `render.ml` still *prints* a struct with colons, deliberately:
 `emacs/flan-inspect.el:165` parses that output and hard-codes the colon when it reads a field out, so the printer
-has to move in the same commit as its reader. And `flan-mode.el:61` font-locks `:name` as a constant with nothing
-matching `.name`, so a field label is now unfontified where it used to be coloured. Neither is urgent; both belong
-with whoever next opens `emacs/`.
+has to move in the same commit as its reader. That half is still open and belongs with whoever next opens the
+inspector. ~~And `flan-mode.el:61` font-locks `:name` as a constant with nothing matching `.name`, so a field label
+is now unfontified where it used to be coloured.~~ **The font-lock half is done:** a field is drawn as a constant in
+both of the spellings that exist while the corpus moves, so `{.x 1}` and the accessor `(.x v)` read alike, and the
+keyword rule stayed where it was because the colon still means an enum member and a map key.
 
 **7. `Map` follows Odin's implementation.** Read `base/runtime/dynamic_map_internal.odin` before writing any of it;
 the checkout is at `~/Repositories/Odin`. Three properties are the ones worth copying, and they are stated in its own
@@ -423,9 +425,12 @@ run one lane at a time; item 4 is disjoint and runs alongside any of them.
    whole of the resource-cleanup answer.
 
 4. **The Emacs batch. Disjoint from the compiler, so it runs in parallel with anything above.** Globals in the break
-   buffer; the buffer opening itself when the program stops; the indentation rewrite with `clojure-mode` as the
-   reference; `#_`; hex, binary and addresses on primitives in the inspector. The indentation one is worth doing first
-   within this batch — it costs friction on every keystroke today.
+   buffer; the buffer opening itself when the program stops; ~~the indentation rewrite with `clojure-mode` as the
+   reference~~; ~~`#_`~~; hex, binary and addresses on primitives in the inspector. **The indentation rewrite and `#_`
+   are done.** The indenter is ported from `clojure-mode`'s source rather than derived from it — `flan-mode` still
+   requires nothing outside stock Emacs — and it aligns a binding vector name-under-name, which is the bug that cost
+   friction on every keystroke. `defn` parameter lists and `restart-case` clause parameters were the same shape and
+   came with it. What remains in this batch is the break buffer and the inspector, and they are independent.
 
 5. **Union values, then the macro expander, then `Result`/`try`.** Promoted above `Handle` on the author's call —
    macros are the thing most worth wanting, and unions are the only thing between here and them.
diff --git a/emacs/MANUAL.md b/emacs/MANUAL.md
index 1ac431c..e12fc0d 100644
--- a/emacs/MANUAL.md
+++ b/emacs/MANUAL.md
@@ -263,6 +263,49 @@ the inner binding.
 
 ---
 
+## Writing it
+
+`TAB` indents the line, and `C-M-q` the form under point. The rules are ported
+from `clojure-mode`'s, because Clojure has the shapes Flan has and Emacs Lisp
+does not — vectors that bind, bracket variety, and keys inside braces.
+
+**A binding vector lines up name under name.** The second and later bindings of a
+`let` sit under the first one's *name*, not under its value:
+
+```
+(let [vel (+ gravity (at velocity row col))
+      y   (min (- rows 1) (+ row (i32 vel)))]
+  …)
+```
+
+The same rule draws `defn` parameter lists, `restart-case` and `handler-bind`
+clause parameters, and both spellings of a struct literal — they are all a vector
+or a brace read in pairs, so they are all indented as one.
+
+**A body indents two.** `let`, `if`, `when`, `while`, `match`, `restart-case`,
+`handler-bind`, `defn` and the `def…` forms all put their body two columns in
+from the head. What differs between them is only how many forms come *before*
+the body and stay on the head's line — a `let`'s binding vector, an `if`'s test,
+a `restart-case`'s protected form — and the indenter knows that count per form.
+
+A form it has no entry for is treated as a call: the arguments line up under the
+first argument, not two in. That is the fallback, and it is what you want for
+`(rl/draw-rectangle x y w h)` and for every function you write.
+
+`defn` carries a return type between the parameter vector and the body, and it is
+optional. The indenter does not need to know which — everything after the head
+indents two, which is the right answer for the name, the parameters, a return type
+if one is written, and the body alike.
+
+**A field is drawn as a constant**, in the accessor `(.x v)` and as a label in
+`{.x 1.0}`. The colon is still a constant too; it means an enum member, `:green`,
+and a key in a map.
+
+Nothing here needs a running program. Indentation and colouring are the major
+mode's, so they work in a file you have only opened.
+
+---
+
 ## Getting around
 
 | Key | Does |