From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 6617-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>,
acm@muc.de
Subject: bug#6617: linux kernel C style (fwd)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:17:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmmW4P5hTyqPDrY4@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735i241y0.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>
Hello, everybody.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 14:16:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Alan,
> On Sun 24 Apr 2022 at 02:50PM GMT, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > After a bit of thought, I agree with you. I think here it is better
> > just to add the setting of indent-tabs-mode to the "linux" style. Most
> > users of "linux" will have that variable set to t one way or another,
> > and so won't notice.
> > There will be a few users using the style for non-Linux projects, who
> > will be used to indent-tabs-mode being nil. That is just unfortunate.
> > I think the balance of benefits and problems comes down on the side of
> > this abrupt change.
> Right.
> > I intend to apply the following patch to cc-styles.el soon. If you
> > want to test it you're very welcome, but please note that since it
> > changes a variable, the amended CC Mode should be the first CC Mode
> > you load in the Emacs session. (Otherwise, you'll need to do fancy
> > things with `makunbound' before loading the new CC Mode.)
> I'm not in the middle of any C projects using the Linux style atm, so I
> don't think I'll be able to test, but your patch looks basically
> equivalent to the "linux-tabs" thing I was doing, so probably doesn't
> need a lot of testing. Thanks for thinking this one over!
I've now committed the change to cc-styles.el, and am closing the bug
with this post.
> --
> Sean Whitton
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 10:08 bug#6617: linux kernel C style (fwd) Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-07-13 8:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-13 9:17 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-07-13 12:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2021-09-08 8:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 18:29 ` Sean Whitton
2021-09-09 14:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-18 18:30 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-24 14:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-04-24 21:16 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-27 19:17 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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