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From: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:16:18 +0200
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* Lars Hjemli [16 X 2007 11:04]:
>>>From http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/CodingStyle;h=7f1730f1a1ae2e9a6f368bdb10ff65f4568863d5;hb=HEAD
> 
> (defun linux-c-mode ()
>   "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
>   (interactive)
>   (c-mode)
>   (c-set-style "K&R")
>   (setq tab-width 8)
>   (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
>   (setq c-basic-offset 8))
> 
> 
> And to use this only in a specific directory:
> 
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("/usr/src/linux.*/.*\\.[ch]$" . linux-c-mode)
> 	auto-mode-alist))

Thanks!

But it seems that the above settings are still imperfect, since they
mixes tabs and spaces when aligning. For instance:

int some_function(int some_variable)
{
<T>	int result;
<T>	result = execute_another_function(some_variable,
<T>	<T>	<T>	<T>	<T>	..other_variable);
<T>	return result;
}

<T> - represents tab here, `.' - space

And if one change the tab size, it will result in a messy alignment in
line 5.
I guess there is no ideal solution for this in Emacs.

BR,
/Adam


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