Re: [Bug-indent] procname-start-lines and hability to position of return function type

[VALETTE Eric]

david ingamells wrote:
> Eric,
> I'm pleased you like what you see, although I cannot take much of the credit
> for the improvements, having taken over as maintainer not long before the
> release of 2.2.7.
>
> Regarding your request, as indent does not really look ahead in the file, at 
> the time that the function type is seen indent cannot differentiate between
> a global variable declaration and a function declaration. Therefore whatever
> indent is set to will apply to the indentation of both. Is this what your 
> coding standard requires? e.g. how should
>
> int a_global_variable;
> int a_function()
> {
>    return 1;
> }

int a_global_variable;

  int
a_function()
{
  return 1;
}

NB : only one function will be close to variable declaration in most case.
Besides, there will probably be comments to separate the two lines.


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