Re: [PATCH 1/2] run scripts/Lindent on it to match Documentation/CodingStyle

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:53:45AM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote:
> Do people ever check what Lindent does?
[...]
> > -out1:
> > +      out1:
> 
> NAK: A perfectly valid non-indented label is now indented by 6 spaces.

I tracked down why indent does this.  It's actually hard-coded to indent
by 2 fewer columns than the current code indentation.  I've patched it
to allow specifying either an absolute column, or a column relative to
the current indentation level.

Patch here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugC3956

Of course, we can't add this flag to Lindent until it's widely
circulating amongst the distributions.  Perhaps we can add this to
Lindent in the meantime:

sed -i -e 's/^\t*      \(\w*:\)/ \1/' "$@"

which will replace the leading tabs and spaces with one space.
It should leave case labels unmolested, as they should be indented with
tabs, not 6 spaces.

Any regexp ninjas want to have a go at something better?

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