Personal style -vs- Standards

Eric S. Raymond eric at snark.UUCP
Wed Dec 21 09:25:53 AEST 1988


In <519 at midgard.midgard.mn.org>, dal at midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Dale Schumacher) writes:
>[Let's build a powerful C beautifier to solve the multiple-formats problem]

Such tools already exist. Try ESC-C-q in gnumacs C-mode; or get your hands on
the PD indent(1) that was on the 4.2BSD user-supported software tape. If you
know what you're doing with either of these you can make the output come out
in almost any reasonable variation of the major coding styles.
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