Re: [Bug-indent] -bfda option

[Kim Saunders]

> you are in luck! Just last month I impemented that fix. It will be in the 
> next release which will be out during August.

Excellent :)

Given that you've got a release coming up, there's a few other things
that I'd be interested in. Perhaps they're already supported, in which
case the documentation may need updating, as I've looked fairly hard for
them:

* Turning off backup files. I trust indent, and hate having ~ files
everywhere. In any case I use CVS, and would grab a version out of there
if indent ever did kill a source file. The "Backup Files" section in the
manual (1.2) doesn't mention anything about turning backups off.

* Formatting of pointer variables. The code I have inherited has
occurrences of "char * foo", whereas I prefer "char *foo". This goes
function declarations as well as inside functions. This surprises me a
little, maybe it's in the manual somewhere, but I can't find it.

The obligatory thanks for maintaining indent - I've inherited some
pretty average C code, and indent makes the source a hell of a lot more
readable, so I can concentrate on the logic without being distracted by
the style.

Thanks,

KimS