Re: Coding style for emacs

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
> >
> > > Has anyone considered adding vi/vim options to the files themselves?
> > > Granted, not a trivial task, but it would ensure anyone using vim would
> > > have the correct settings. I don't know if emacs has the same ability
> > > (I've seen the "Hey emacs, this is a C file" stuff...)
> >
> > Certainly it does; it even knows that certain variables are safe to allow
> > files to set without warning the user and it has the indention marked as such.
> >
> > I think this would be what you would want.
> >
> > /*
> > * Local variables:
> > * eval: (c-set-style "bsd")
> > * tab-width: 4
> > * c-basic-offset: 4
> > * End:
> > */
> >
> > But it would have to be on the end of every single file which would be pretty
> > heavyweight.
>
> Yeah, which is the real question... do people think it's worth it enough
> to move towards doing that? Of course the nice thing is that *anyone*
> (even me :) ) could produce a patch to do that.

No. It is obstructive and hard to maintain.

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