Re: Unusual C indentation conventions

[Greg Rowe]

no spam wrote:
> The code follows an indentation convention that is a bit
> unusual for C.  Opening and closing braces are on
> a line by themselves and are indented at the same
> level as the block they enclose:
>     if (someTest)
>         {
>         doSomething();
>         doSomethingElse();
>         }
> Tab stops are set to 8.  Each block of code is
> indented by 4 from the previous block.  (In the
> vi editor set ts=8  set sw=4)


The coding style whitesmith is close.  C-c . to run c-set-style.  Choose 
whitesmith.  You can change the indenting amount in cc-mode by doing M-x 
set-variable and set c-basic-offset to the number of spaces you desire.

You can change the tab stop width using the tab-width variable.  M-x 
set-variable again.

In your .emacs you might want something like the following to make 
everything happen automatically:


(add-hook c-mode
        (lambda ()
                (c-set-style "whitesmith")
                (setq c-basic-offset 4)
                (setq tab-width 8)))

Good luck!

Greg

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