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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:17:16 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To:        Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com>
Cc:        standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Emacs and style(9)
Message-ID:  <20011230051716.GA80312@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <3C2E1481.75D70CE1@attbi.com>
References:  <20011228031537.B99161@espresso.q9media.com> <3C2CA64C.663F8943@attbi.com> <200112281746.fBSHk6n58428@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011228.120317.105126127.imp@village.org> <20011229175813.GA42892@madman.nectar.cc> <3C2E1481.75D70CE1@attbi.com>

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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:07:45PM -0600, Joe Halpin wrote:
> "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote:
> > 
> > Here's how I do it in xemacs.  Perhaps someone will take all of these
> > posts and come up with the One Perfect Way.
> > 
> > (defconst knf-c-style
> >   '((c-basic-offset . 8)
> >     (c-indent-level . 8)
> >     (c-continued-statement-offset . 8)
> 
> Shouldn't things like this be 4 rather than 8?

Well, c-continued-statement-offset probably should be 4.  This was
left over from days past, and isn't used by cc-mode actually (thus my
comment about dumping them).  Shortly after my post I got rid of that
crud and so I'm left with just:

 (defconst knf-c-style
   '((c-basic-offset . 8)
     (c-offsets-alist . ((knr-argdecl-intro . +)
			(knr-argdecl . 0)
			(block-open . -)
			(label . -)
			(statement-cont . 4)
			(arglist-cont . 4)
			(arglist-cont-nonempty 4))))
  "BSD KNF")

Notice that the 4 space indent is used for continuation.

> The style manpage says
> "Indentation is an 8 character tab.  Second level indents are four
> spaces.".
>  
> That's what I've been having the most trouble with. If I define
> c-basic-offset to be 8, and then define other offsets to be 4, it
> doesn't work for me. I don't really speak emacs lisp very well though,
> so maybe my accent is screwing things up.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If I recall correctly, the stuff besides `c-offsets-alist' and
> > `c-basic-offset' is just for old c-mode compatibility and is probably
> > not needed.
> 
> Maybe that's my problem. Any way to do what the style manpage wants?

Have you tried what I posted previously?  Works for me.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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