From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C style alist question? Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 09:48:19 +0300 Message-ID: <837ec7bpe4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190406032636.7ftf2ua54uhy2k7e@Ergus> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="167895"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 06 08:48:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hCf8E-000hYH-O5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 08:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCf8C-00017P-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCf7u-00016z-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCf7u-0002EE-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1185 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hCf7t-0006VA-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:48:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190406032636.7ftf2ua54uhy2k7e@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Sat, 6 Apr 2019 05:26:38 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119912 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 05:26:38 +0200 > From: Ergus > > I usually edit code in two styles; the linux kernel style and now the > emacs style. But I have seen that there are some mismatches between the > style alists and the "official" styles. Sorry, I don't understand what are "style alists" and the "official styles". Please elaborate on that. > For example: > > When I open an emacs' C source code I see details like the fill-column > is 70 instead of 78. > > In the kernel style the indent-tabs-mode is not set to t. Our style is defined by the .dir-locals.el file you see in the repository. indent-tabs-mode is t only in Emacs Lisp mode. > So, is it possible to fix this in order to bring a better and easier > user initial experience with the right default values? Fix how? Change our style? I think that'd be a hard change to sell, because the current defaults were discussed several times and are a kind of compromise between different preferences, but you need to raise this on emacs-devel, not here.