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ccmode: Customizing Indentation

 
 11 Customizing Indentation
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 The principal variable for customizing indentation is the style variable
 ‘c-offsets-alist’, which gives an “offset” (an indentation rule) for
 each syntactic symbol.  Its structure and semantics are completely
 described in c-offsets-alist.  The various ways you can set the
 variable, including the use of the CC Mode style system, are described
DONTPRINTYET  in Config Basics and its sections, in particular *noteStyle
DONTPRINTYET  in Config Basics and its sections, in particular Style

 Variables.
 
    The simplest and most used kind of “offset” setting in
 ‘c-offsets-alist’ is in terms of multiples of ‘c-basic-offset’:
 
  -- User Option: c-basic-offset
      This style variable holds the basic offset between indentation
      levels.  It’s factory default is 4, but all the built-in styles set
      it themselves, to some value between 2 (for ‘gnu’ style) and 8 (for
      ‘bsd’, ‘linux’, and ‘python’ styles).
 
    The most flexible “offset” setting you can make in ‘c-offsets-alist’
 is a line-up function (or even a list of them), either one supplied by
DONTPRINTYET  CC Mode (Line-Up Functions) or one you write yourself (*noteDONTPRINTYET  CC Mode (Line-Up Functions) or one you write yourself (
 Custom Line-Up).
 
    Finally, in Other Indentation you’ll find the tool of last
 resort: a hook which is called after a line has been indented.  You can
 install functions here to make ad-hoc adjustments to any line’s
 indentation.
 

Menu

 
· c-offsets-alist
· Interactive Customization
· Line-Up Functions
· Custom Line-Up
· Other Indentation
 

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