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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: xemacs
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Chuck Robey writes:
> I hope there's someone out there who knows emacs.
> 
> I am learning emacs unwillingly, at the behest of of the cs department, 
> and I have to figure out how to set up the C language indentation to work 
> in the style I like.  It wants to do:
> 
> funcname( parm-list )
>     {
>         func-body;
>     }
> 
> I want it to do like I do in vi, where I use tabbing only (never 
> spacing), with tabs=4, and the form:
> 
> funcname( parm-list )
> {
> 	func-body;
> }
> 
> I do like the way it highlights, in color or font, the various parts of
> the code, but I want it to format MY way.  Can anyone help me?  I can 
> find how the indentation engine works in the info docs, but I can't see 
> how to change it.

Sure, here's the relevant chunks out of my .emacs.  Note, I'm doing it
*MY* way, but you should be able to figure it out using this.


;;; Real indention stuff for C and C++
;;; Defining offsets for cc mode (c mode in xemacs)
(defconst my-c-style
  '((c-basic-offset             .   4)
    (c-comment-only-line-offset .   0)
    (c-tab-always-indent        . nil)
    (c-commit-only-line-offset  .   4)
    (c-hanging-braces-alist     . ((substatement-open after)
                                   (brace-list-open)))
    (c-hanging-colons-alist     . ((member-init-intro before)
                                  (inher-intro)
                                  (case-label after)
                                  (label after)
                                  (access-label after)))
    (c-cleanup-list . (scope-operator
                       empty-defun-braces
                       defun-close-semi))
                                        ; (brace-list-entry      . 0)
                       ;; some people might prefer
                       ;; (statement             . 0)
                       (statement             . c-lineup-runin-statements)
                       ;; some people might prefer
                       ;; (statement-cont        . +)
                       (statement-cont        . c-lineup-math)
                       (substatement-open     . 0)
                      ;; (arglist-close         . +)
                      (arglist-close . c-lineup-arglist)
                      ))
    (c-echo-syntactic-information-p . t))
  "Nate's C/C++ Programming Style")

;;; Customizations for both C-mode and C++-mode
(defun my-c-mode-common-hook()
  ;; Add my personal style and set it for the current buffer
  (c-add-style "PERSONAL" my-c-style t)
  ;; Other C-mode customizations
  (c-toggle-auto-hungry-state 1)
  ;; Both c++-mode-map and objc-mode map inherit c-mode map mods
  (define-key c-mode-map "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
  )

;; Use the newly defined programming/indent style in c-mode
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)
-------------

If you need more help, see
/usr/local/lib/xemacs-19.13/lisp/modes/cc-mode.el.  Hope this helps,


Nate