Re: code indentation

[Nic Ferrier]

Giannis Georgalis <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you all very much for your accurate answers on my 
> serialVersionUID question. 
>  
> YASQ (Yet Another Short Question) about code indentation; 
>  
> I've read some old archives on the list about the indentation of the 
> code, so I came up with the following java-mode-hook in my .emacs: 
>  
> (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 
>           (function (lambda() 
>                       (c-set-style "GNU") 
>                       (c-set-offset 'inline-open 0) 
>                       (setq c-basic-offset 2)))) 
>  
> But ... I've noticed major differences from this indentation among 
> different implementations of classes. Is the above ok for classpath? 
> Additionally, as I've read the GNU coding standards, a function (method) 
> definition should be like: 
>  
> public static void 
> sampleMethod(String a) 
> { 
> ... 
>  
> For the only reason that we should be able to "jump" to the function by 
> a search-regexp(^sampleMethod). Provided that c/etags exist as a tool 
> for that specific reason, I'm asking permition to change(*) the style to: 
>  
> public static void sampleMethod(String a) 
> { 
>  
> which I consider more "consistent" (IMHO). 
>  
> (*) to java.io.* classes that I'm working. 

This is fine. We have actually defined a bunch of java specific
caveats to the coding rules and I'm going to produce an indent
program that pretty-prints using them.

I've not had time to do that up to now... I may take a different
approach than patching gnu-indent (which is what I was going to do)
and instead write a java program to do it.

I will (probably before I get the chance to write a pretty-ifier)
update the coding standards document.


Nic