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

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 13:17:22 UTC 2009


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?

Rich.

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