Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:32:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xemacs Message-ID: <199512032032.NAA08994@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202165007.306A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Dec 2, 95 04:52:24 pm
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> I personally like your way, and do so, because I can't figure out how to
> make the syntax highlighting stick. It does in html mode, but not in cpp
> mode.
[ ... Coding style ... ]
I've found that coding style is generally a function of the tools you
use to manipulate the code.
For most UNIX-oids, it's 'vi', 'find', and 'grep', etc.
Use of tag-files reduces the utility of some of these tools, making
then redundant. Use of things like "cvi" results in some "unnatural"
standards that become much easier to use with macro-editing.
You can almost pick out which system and what tools a programmer
uses by the coding style, unless they are real green and haven't
established a style or adopted a standard style for a platform,
with minor variations.
For instance, you typically see
<return type>
<funcname>
instead of
<return type> <funcname>
when a programmer uses the ^<funcname> regular expression to find a
function declaration, either in vi in a single file or using grep
over a large number of files.
You see
<function declaration>
{
Instead of
<function declaration>
{
or
<function declaration> {
when a programmer uses the vi "[[" and "]]" commands (without using
a "set paragraphs=" command in their .exrc) to find function starts.
You see
<statement expression> {
instead of
<statement expression>
{
When the programmer uses the vi "$%" to match statement scope, since
it is less finger motion than "j%", etc., etc..
Not much relevance, I know, but it's an interesting aside.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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