From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Arnold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:11:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9on63d.36.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112998390 18733 80.91.229.2 (8 Apr 2005 22:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 00:13:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DK1ia-0000Hn-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DK1I9-0004Km-7z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:45:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:11:06 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050202 MultiZilla/1.7.0.2d X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <9on63d.36.ln@acm.acm> Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.76.225 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ESNLgGRxWuAJM4du3eNPuCx9xBDJqMVm0RycFVXM28szgcXYYbCujwrp3fbDI08lKzvx8K9VG8bK3Gy!Rnd3W+7JHoiVQlARVXVhIeaPc8BPCatjOeJUzUCVm2VufgJCZDywuUZOWSO6hoiL1Bq8l5sPhyjm!8hgrYWrl6WpahTosXCQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129932 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25496 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > [Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help. Add your own group if you wish.] > > To all those who use (X)Emacs's CC Mode to edit C, C++, Java, > Objective-C, Pike, AWK or IDL: > > To help direct the development of CC Mode, it would be useful to find out > how people use the auto-newline "minor mode" facility. If you could > spare a little time, would you answer these questions, please: > > o Do you program with auto-newline switched on (e.g. do you get NLs > inserted automatically after typing a `;' or `{')? Yes, I recently switched over. > o Did you configure this auto-newline setting yourself, and if not, are > you happy with it? I tried configuring it but no luck, so I make do. > o Are you aware of the key binding C-c C-a to toggle this mode on and > off? Nope. But it is good to know. > o How often do you use C-c C-a (or even C-c C-t) to toggle auto-newline > mode? Never. > o In which language(s) (C, C++, ....) do you program in (X)Emacs? C++ I like it, but find it gets in the way about as often as it is useful. I wish I could get it to better match how I code (ie, esp. the opening brace). -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://www.anaze.us/HomeTheater