Re: c-indentation-style

[Alan M. <ac...@mu...>]

Hi, Richard!

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Richard Stallman wrote:

>It would be very appropriate to set c-indentation-style in file local
>variable lists, so that everyone editing the file will preserve its
>own style.  Why does the doc string say not to set the variable
>directly?  Does that not work?  If so, why doesn't it work?

c-indentation-style is a simple variable which does nothing more than
indicate the current style.  Setting it would have no effect.

There is the variable c-file-style, which does exactly what you want.
(See the CC Mode Manual page "File Styles".)

>Could you make it work?  After the release, if it isn't trivial.

It seems that the doc-string for c-indentation-style should refer to
c-file-style too.  I'll commit the following patch (to CC Mode's
repository at SourceForge) immediately.  Thanks for telling me about this
confusion.


*** cc-vars.el~	Thu Feb  9 17:30:59 2006
--- cc-vars.el	Sat Apr 29 21:10:05 2006
***************
*** 1600,1606 ****
  
  (defvar c-indentation-style nil
    "Name of the currently installed style.
! Don't change this directly; call `c-set-style' instead.")
  
  (defvar c-current-comment-prefix nil
    "The current comment prefix regexp.
--- 1600,1607 ----
  
  (defvar c-indentation-style nil
    "Name of the currently installed style.
! Don't change this directly; call `c-set-style' instead, or set the variable
! `c-file-style' in the file's Local Variable list.")
  
  (defvar c-current-comment-prefix nil
    "The current comment prefix regexp.


-- 
Alan.