Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Document Qemu coding style

[Avi Kivity]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:23:43AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > With the help of some Limoncino I noted several aspects of the Qemu coding
> > style, particularly where it differs from the Linux coding style as many
> > contributors work on both projects.
> >     
> Just as a general comment, have you thought about providing specific
> guidance for emacs and vi users?
>
> In libvirt, the HACKING file contains the following useful snippet for
> emacs users:
>
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=HACKING;h=ca39d61d85f2aaa3991f13a540772932208be7cd;hb=f5c687f03d8313407448fc642f8fefe95a655645#l59
>
> They just paste that into their ~/.emacs, and any time they edit
> libvirt code it "just works".
>
>   

Good idea.  Maybe not in CODING_STYLE, but it's certainly helpful.

I use something similar in my ~/.emacs.

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