Re: The current state of the comment-cache branch

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Dec 28 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:55:00 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>> 
>> > I'm still wondering how useful this could be for C code though. There are
>> > many coding conventions where the opening { of a function does not go in
>> > the left-most column. As far as I understand, such coding conventions would
>> > lead to slower parsing?
>> 
>> This convention is not useful for C.
>
> Our coding standards clearly call for starting a function's body with
> an opening brace in column zero.

I would hope that Emacs is used not only to edit its own source code but
also other code, for which these standards don't apply.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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