On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 19:19:12 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >>>> It would be nice if style(9) documented the options to give indent(1) >>>> to match the `approved' layout convections. (This would reduce the >>>> effort involved in importing large chunks of code). >>> >>> This is impossible, since indent(1) is buggy and out of date with both >>> KNF and C. >> >> Well, you can do a certain amount. In fact, I use GNU indent and >> achieve a reasonable approximation. > > I see no evidence of this. vinum sources don't seem to have a single > line in KNF, except accidentally. They have an indentation of 4 > instead of 8, lots of per-statement comments, lots of lines longer > than 80 characters, lots of block comments without `/*' and `*/' on > a line by themself, ...
Well, I call that an approximation. Sorry I have so many comments. I'll fix the individual line /* and */; it wasn't evident from style(9) that this was a requirement. >> It would be nice to import it, >> but it doesn't comply with style(9) :-) > > style(9) only applies to non-contrib'ed sources. e.g., vinum :-). Don't spoil a good story by sticking too closely to the facts. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
