Re: Coding style for emacs

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone considered adding vi/vim options to the files themselves?
>>> Granted, not a trivial task, but it would ensure anyone using vim would
>>> have the correct settings. I don't know if emacs has the same ability
>>> (I've seen the "Hey emacs, this is a C file" stuff...)
>>>
>> Certainly it does; it even knows that certain variables are safe to allow
>> files to set without warning the user and it has the indention marked as such.
>>
>> I think this would be what you would want.
>>
>> /*
>> * Local variables:
>> * eval: (c-set-style "bsd")
>> * tab-width: 4
>> * c-basic-offset: 4
>> * End:
>> */
>>
>> But it would have to be on the end of every single file which would be pretty
>> heavyweight.
>>
>
> Yeah, which is the real question... do people think it's worth it enough
> to move towards doing that? Of course the nice thing is that *anyone*
> (even me :) ) could produce a patch to do that.
>

No, please don't. Greg is right, it is way too heavyweight. It's not a
one off exercise. You'd have to check every new file.

cheers

andrew