RE: Lindent and coding style

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 05:12:30 EST


On Maw, 2006-03-21 at 10:55 +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
> > It should produce suitable output. Do you have examples of where it
> > produces space indentation and you expect tabs ?
> As Jiri has said, it produces code like
> <tab> if (very long condition &&
> <tab> ssss2nd condition)...
> The indent command will align the second line at the next character of the left parentheses it belongs to. In my opinion, this approach makes code more readable. However, it does not comply with the coding style of kernel.

Lots of the kernel uses exactly that format (probably because of indent)
so I wouldn't worry personally. The CodingStyle document is a guide not
a formal specification.

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