Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:19:15 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199605281519.BAA24325@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Don't use indent on other peoples code. >What's the alternative? My tools don't understand a lot of the code >out there, and I have difficulty. Use whatever tools you like, but don't attempt to change the public version. >> BSD indent is too broken to produce BSD style :-(. It can only >> produce an approximation that looks OK but has too many differences >> for automatic use. >What about GNU indent? Or is that NIH? It's a bit better, but not 100% backwards compatible, and a long way from understanding enough about C to do a good job. >Precisely :-) But why are we stuck with 8 characters? I can't find >anything about it in style(9). It says "Second level indents are four >spaces." and then proceeds to show examples with 8 character indents. I think the amount of indentation and tab style was supposed to be self-documenting. It has been obscured by nroff adding 5 spaces more indentation. I think "second level indents" are for continued lines. Bruce
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