From: John Darrington <jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au>
Cc: bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CC Mode 5.28 (C); struct braces are not indented in GNU style
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:20:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061214022035.GA31435@csse.uwa.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Gprtz-0006gD-Is@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:48:59PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> GNU coding standards say:
> "It is important to put the open-brace that starts the body of a C
> function in column one, and avoid putting any other open-brace or
> open-parenthesis or open-bracket in column one"
>
>
> But given a code snippet like:
>
> struct foobar
> {
> int x;
> };
>
> indent-region reformats it as:
>
> struct foobar
> {
> int x;
> };
>
> which is contrary to the second clause of this sentence.
>
> I don't think the C indentation commands know how to distinguish
> functions from structs. But perhaps they should not alter
> the indentation of a top-level open-brace.
Braces in a struct initialisation get indented correctly, as in
struct foobar =
{
1,
2
};
so it would seem to me, that it wouldn't be too much effort to get
struct foobar
{
int x;
int y;
};
to indent in the same way.
--
John Darrington jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au
University of Western Australia http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~jmd
PhD Candidate +61 8 6488 4775
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2006-11-29 4:56 CC Mode 5.28 (C); struct braces are not indented in GNU style John Darrington
2006-11-30 19:48 ` Richard Stallman
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