Re: Code formatter

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:10 AM


> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:03:52AM +0000, Neil Puttock wrote:
> > 2009/11/13 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > Oh, and there's lots of
> > > MAKE_SCHEME_CALLBACK (Axis_group_interface, print, 1)
> > > -SCM
> > > + SCM
> >
> > My emacs doesn't do this. :)
>
> Joy of joys...
> address@hidden:~$ emacs --version
> GNU Emacs 21.4.1
>
> I'm guessing that you're on 22 ?  Well, only one of those can be
> the definitive standard.  I guess we should declare emacs 22 to be
> this?  :(

If the standard is "whatever emacs does" then it may
well change with emacs releases.  Seems a silly standard
to me, but then I'm not (yet) a developer.

> I want an independent code formatter more and more... :(
> (but that doesn't mean that I'll relax my standards (no pun
> intended) on this issue)

No.  You need an independent standard.  A formatter can
come later.

Trevor