Re: Code formatting

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:

Mark> I am still a bit confused about what the unofficial coding style is.
Mark> Has someone documented somewhere?
Mark> How do I tell emacs to do the right thing?

libgcj has a fairly consistent style throughout (there are some
divergences, mostly due to a bug in an earlier version of Emacs).
Classpath has a much wider range of styles.

My understanding is that there are a few ok styles.  They are all
derived from the GNU C style.  The differences seem to be:

* Whether methods are indented or put in the left column
* Whether there is a space before a '(' in a method call

I don't know that it has been written down anywhere.

As to Emacs, I do (c-set-style "GNU") and then do
(c-set-offset 'inline-open 0) in my java-mode-hook.

This, plus knowing when to hit Enter and Space, makes Emacs give me
the right style automatically.

Tom