Re: C indentation customization

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 1:09:58 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:25:27 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Rusi 
> > 
> > On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 8:23:11 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi wrote:
> > > On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 7:54:41 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi wrote:
> > > > http://emacswiki.org/emacs/IndentingC
> > > > seems to say that doing
> > > > 
> > > > (setq c-default-style "linux"
> > > >           c-basic-offset 4)
> > > > 
> > > > will indent like this:
> > > > 
> > > > if(foo)
> > > > {
> > > >     bar++;
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > ie '{' is not indented, contents is 4 space indented.
> > > > 
> > > > Likewise setting to bsd
> > > > as described https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Allman_style
> > > > seems to say that the '{' wont be indented
> > > > 
> > > > None of these work; ie the '{' is always indented.
> > > 
> > > Evidently restarting emacs makes it work
> > > [ie these bindings need to be in effect before CC-mode is loaded(?)]
> > 
> > Should not the early-binding of these deserve a place somewhere (prominent)
> > in the docs?
> > Something like:
> > - For permanent settings do ...
> > - For temporary trying out do ...
> 
> Did you read the node "Config Basics" in the CC Mode manual?  It seems
> to discuss precisely these issues.

I did.
If you know what you are looking for, you can look for it :-)
Also its not there in the describe-variable for c-default-style except in a
backhanded sort of way:
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The default style gets installed before your mode hooks run, so you
can always override the use of `c-default-style' by making calls to
`c-set-style' in the appropriate mode hook.
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