Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mit, 2008-02-27 at 11:02 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> 
> > On Mit, 2008-02-27 at 00:40 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +Continuation lines are always shorter than the initial one and are
> > > > +(1) indented as much as the initial line, plus (2) alignment spaces.
> > > > +Spaces are used so as to not cause odd aligning for users wishing to
> > > > +display tabs at sizes other than 8. In the example below, the
> > > > +continuation line of the printk call therefore has two tabs of logical
> > > > +indent, followed by a number of spaces to align it up.
> > > 
> > > Now, I think, I am not the only one using emacs. Until now the "linux" 
> > > C-style fitted perfectly with the CodingStyle, now it no longer will. 
> > > Namely, emacs puts as many tabs to indent the continuation line as fit 
> > > (i.e., at tab width = 8 spaces it's just (extra indent / 8) tabs plus 
> > > (extra indent % 8) spaces. Is there a way to make emacs behave compatibly 
> > > to this proposal? If not, I would not like to have to re-indent every such 
> > 
> > Unless I'm misunderstanding something completely: Add "indent-tabs-mode:
> > nil" in a "Local Variables:" section.
> > But since Linux-style has that since ages (if not ever), that should be
> > set for am emacs'ens linux-mode anyway.
> 
> I think you do misunderstand something. The "linux" emacs mode as I know 

Yes, I`m silly - -ENOCOFFEE;-) CodingStyle/"linux-mode" *does* use TABs
since ever.

> it does for the following example
> 
> 1:	function(arg1,
> 2:		 arg2);
> 
> in line 2 two TABs and one space. Whereas the proposal in discussion wants 
> to have there one TAB and nine spaces.

I stand corrected, you are right.

	Bernd
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