Messages in this thread | | | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Subject | Re: emacs and "linux" coding style | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:05:02 +0200 |
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Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> Actually, what my code use is tabs with a tab stop of 8 followed by > enough spaces (< 7) to align function parameters and to align > open/close parenthesis in C expression line wrap.
To be honest, I do precisely the same, though I think it's far from perfect. It's just emacs which can't do better (or I don't know how to make it do better).
> The main problem seems to be that Chapter 9 in > Documentation/CodingStyle is written by someone who feels that since > vi makes it easy to only align parameters using tabs, that everybody > should do it the same way as vi. I'm simply challenging Chapter 9 as > being canon. I certainly ignore it, and as a maintainer I tend to > accept either vi or emacs-style indentations with respect to > parameters and C expressions.
Fully agreed. -- Krzysztof Halasa
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