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Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>:
>  Hello.
>  I'm using emacs to code in C++ and I'm unhappy with how it alignes 
>  variable declarations.
> 
>  What I get is:
> 
>  double a,
>     b;
> 
>  What I'd like to get is:
>  double a,
>          b;
> 
>  Is there any way to do this?
> 
> 
> 
>  Also, suppose I have:
> 
>  return a==b||
>     a==c||
>     a==d;
> 
>  I'd like to get:
>  return a==b||
>          a==c||
>          a==d;
> 
>  Is this possible too?
> 
> 
>    bye & Thanks
>  	av.

Have you tried the various alignment options? In my .emacs I have:
;; Indentation style 
  (setq c-default-style "stroustrup")
  
But I could have had one of several others. 'gnu', 'k&r', 'bsd',
'whitesmith', 'ellemtel, 'linux'...

Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info