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@@ -284,6 +284,25 @@ it is the first binding's **name** — never a body form — so the check fails
 **What it is built on:** Emacs's built-in `lisp-indent-function`, with that one override. Not `clojure-mode`, which is
 where the missing piece lives — `clojure-mode` special-cases binding vectors and aligns them as pairs.
 
-The fix is a binding-vector case in `flan-indent-function`: when the enclosing open is `[` and the form containing it is
-a binding form, align to the column of the first binding. Worth checking the other bracket users at the same time —
-`defn` parameter lists and `restart-case` clause parameters have the same shape.
+**The fix, agreed in conversation:** add a binding-vector case to `flan-indent-function`. When the enclosing open is `[`
+and the form containing it is a binding form, align continuation lines to the column of the **first binding**, not to
+the first argument. Bindings are pairs, so the alignment that reads correctly is name-under-name. Check the other
+bracket users in the same pass — `defn` parameter lists and `restart-case` clause parameters have the same shape and
+almost certainly the same bug.
+
+**Should `flan-mode` derive from `clojure-mode` instead?** Considered and declined, without much in it.
+
+For: binding vectors, `#_` and a lot of tuned indentation for free, and the syntax genuinely is Clojure-shaped.
+
+Against, and this is what decided it:
+
+- `flan-mode` currently depends on **nothing outside stock Emacs**, and it ships inside this repo. Deriving adds an
+  external package to something distributed with the compiler.
+- **The divergence is growing.** `defn` carries a return type between the parameters and the body, which Clojure has no
+  concept of; field access is `(.x v)`; and the decision to move field labels from `:x` to `.x` means `{.x 1.0}` would
+  read to `clojure-mode` as a map with symbol keys. Inheriting rules then means overriding them, which is usually more
+  work than writing the few that are wanted.
+- That community is mid-transition to a tree-sitter mode, so the base would be a moving target.
+
+**So: stay independent and copy `clojure-mode`'s binding-vector algorithm**, which is small, known-good, and the only
+piece actually missing. If a second or third gap appears later that is real evidence for deriving; one is not.