On Fri, 04 May 2018 13:41:57 +0200
Rene Hopf <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is a mix of tabs and spaces in the code, sometimes even mixed in the 
> same line,
> and loads of bad indentation. Im not blaming anyone here,
> that just happens with such an old codebase with so many contributors.

Some editors like emacs or builtin Eclise may fix this automatically, select 
and press a button or two or menu item. Maybe there also is some kind of 
command line driven tool so several files could be scanned at once.

As I understand you already discovered clang for formatting.

> However, I could not even find coding style guidelines.
> Imho the only way of fixing that is with some automatic formatter.
> I think clang-format is the best: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html

Eclipse have some kind of builtin gnu variant but insert tabs then lines get 
long enough even though the option to not have been marked.

> I use a makefile taget like this:
> https://github.com/rene-dev/stmbl/blob/master/Makefile#L347
> the style is in a separate file: 
> https://github.com/rene-dev/stmbl/blob/master/.clang-format
> 
> Rene


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