Re: Coding standards

bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> People [are] complaining here that we don't teach people here anyway, so
>> hopefully my comments were still useful :-)
>>
> Yes they are useful. As a new patcher, where should I look for coding
> standards? How about a little FAQ at the
> top of the CVS source tree?
>
> Though, darn it, I sure like //
>
> And my vi is set to:
> set sw=4
> set ts=4
> set expandtab
> Because my corporate projects require spaces not tabs.

Note that you can find config for vim and emacs to get them to support the coding standards in:

/opt/src/pgsql-HEAD/src/tools/editors/emacs.samples
/opt/src/pgsql-HEAD/src/tools/editors/vim.samples

For vim, the essentials are thus:

:if match(getcwd(), "/pgsql") >=0 || match(getcwd(), "/postgresql") >= 0
: set cinoptions=(0
: set tabstop=4
: set shiftwidth=4
:endif

The hooks are slightly different (though not by spectacularly much,
somewhat surprisingly) for Emacs...
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