Re: Customizing C Indentation

["Rodrigo González del Cueto" <rdelcueto@gmail.com>]

On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:52:49 PM UTC-5, Rodrigo González del Cueto wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I hope you could help me figure out how to customize Emacs to indent code in the following way.
> 
> I'm working on an EDK related project. And the EDK code standards state the following:
> 
> "Subsequent lines of multi-line function calls should line up one or two tab-
> stops from the beginning of the function name."
> 
> Example:
> 
>   Status = gRT->GetVariable(
>                   NORMAL_SETUP_NAME,
>                   &gEfiNormalSetupGuid,
>                   NULL,
>                   &VarSize,
>                   &SystemConfiguration
>                   );
> 
> So given a function call, the arglist-intro offset, should make reference to the position of the first character of the function being called, and from there, go up an indentation level.
> 
> I've read the Emacs documentation, and I only understood how to indent in relation to the previous line's indentation level. But I haven't been able to understand how to move within the previous line's content.
> 
> -Rodrigo

Just realized that the code example format doesn't look the same in every computer.
I'll link to the Github source code line, for a better view.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/5d6bf9e22973c2ad327ca7422f80144c848912dc/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/PlatformInfoDxe/PlatformInfoDxe.c#L67