[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Cleanup whitespace warnings in Lib.pm

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Mon Aug 3 13:18:54 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:07:22PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Sure.  libvirt's HACKING has a tip I like:
>> I'll be happy to extend it to other modes if that'd help,
>> so it also affects ocaml, shell scripts, etc.:
>>
>> Code indentation
>> ================
>> Libvirt's C source code generally adheres to some basic code-formatting
>> conventions.  The existing code base is not totally consistent on this
>> front, but we do prefer that contributed code be formatted similarly.
>> In short, use spaces-not-TABs for indentation, use 4 spaces for each
>> indentation level, and other than that, follow the K&R style.
>>
>> If you use Emacs, add the following to one of one of your start-up files
>> (e.g., ~/.emacs), to help ensure that you get indentation right:
>>
>>   ;;; When editing C sources in libvirt, use this style.
>>   (defun libvirt-c-mode ()
>>     "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with libvirt."
>>     (interactive)
>>     (c-set-style "K&R")
>>     (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) ; indent using spaces, not TABs
>>     (setq c-indent-level 4)
>>     (setq c-basic-offset 4))
>>   (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
>>             '(lambda () (if (string-match "/libvirt" (buffer-file-name))
>>                             (libvirt-c-mode))))
>
> OK this seems sensible.  Do you want to add it to our
> HACKING while you're doing the actual whitespace changes?

Will do.




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