Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Anyone who knows how to get Emacs to indent code like what the
>> libssh2 uses? What IS the libssh2 coding style anyway? It doesn't
>> seem to be BSD nor K&R and definitely not the GNU style.
>
> The style is kind of a compromise of what people expressed back when I
> complained about the previous code style. The libssh2-style.el is what
> I use.
Ah, I had missed that. I changed HACKING to add a pointer in it.
>> Alternatively, what parameters to 'indent' can I use to fix
>> indentation of code I write?
>
> The indent options I used when I converted from the old style is mentioned in
> the commit log, but it says:
>
> --braces-on-if-line \
> --braces-after-struct-decl-line \
> --space-after-cast \
> --line-length 79 \
> --comment-line-length 79 \
> --cuddle-else \
> --no-tabs \
> --tab-size 8 \
> --indent-level 4 \
> --no-space-after-for \
> --space-after-if \
> --space-after-while \
> --no-space-after-function-call-names \
I wonder if using some standard coding style might not be easier, but I
don't care strongly.
> Over time, I've decided to violate a few of the previous other rules
> too when I've edited the code, such as the one that used to say that
> we MUST use braces on all expressions, even one-liners such as:
>
> if (moo) {
> foobar();
> }
>
> ... as I think it makes the code less readable than plainly:
>
> if (moo)
> foobar();
I think that is more readable too.
/Simon
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