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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:44:44 +0000
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Subject: Indent style (was RHIDE - compliments and complaints)
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Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De> replied to
Fábio Diales da Rocha:

>>     That and some minor inconcistences on the keyboard mapping and the
>> intelligent identing (remember, you can identify a programmer by the way he
>> idents is code, so very obtrusive intelligent identing is very irritating)
>> stop RHIDE from being the perfect IDE.
>You can change the kb mapping wildly to your free will. The indenting
>is in fact not what I personally like, but mostly consistent.
>I like
>   if (whatever){
>     foo();
>   }
>   else{
>     bar();
>   }
>
>whereas RHIDE supports
>   if (whatever)
>   {
>      foo();
>   }
>   else
>   {
>      bar();
>   }
>
>but this is a matter of personal preferences...
Currently RHIDE HELPS to indent in the following ways:

[Intelligent C indent ON]
if (whatever)
  {
   do_some_thing;
   do_other;
  }
else
   do_it;

or

[Intelligent C indent OFF, Tabs ON set to 3 spaces]
if (whatever)
   {
   do_some_thing;
   do_other;
   }
else
   do_it;

or

if (xxx)
{
   do;
   do;
}
else
   do;

and why not?:

if (xxxx){
   do;
   do;
}
else{
   do;
   do;
}
[Note: I wrote all with the editor used by RHIDE, I removed the tabs
after typing to avoid confutions]

Only the first style makes it helping the user A LOT so of course
is "very obtrusive intelligent identing", the rest can be achived
with small effort, and if you configure the pseudo-macros you'll
get a very good speed-up for ANY indent style.
Additionally the sources are available and anybody can contribute
with a new indent routine.
If anybody wants an special indentation supported s/he must
consider sending to me a full detailed description of the behavior
expected and I'll consider it.

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