Setting up editors for the GNU/GCC coding style?

[Tim Lange]

On Thu, Jul 28 2022 at 02:46:58 PM -0400, David Malcolm via Gcc 
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> Is there documentation on setting up text editors to work with our
> coding style?  A lot of the next generation of developers aren't using
> vi or emacs; they's using VS Code, CLion, and other editors.  Does
> anyone have docs on e.g. how to set up VS Code, CLion, etc (IntelliJ 
> ?)
> to work well on GCC's own code base.  FWIW I use Emacs; I've dabbed
> with VS Code but haven't used it "for real".

I did prepare my first patch(es) with vscode. For debugging, I set up 
vscode to launch gcc with gdbserver as wrapper and then let the vscode 
debugger to connect to the gdbserver. At first, I tried to get the gnu 
coding style to work in the hacky way by using tabSize=8 and rebinding 
tab to 2 spaces but later ditched that because it bothered me more than 
doing just spaces and replacing 8 spaces with 1 tab before sending the 
patch. That still wastes time because all files that I didn't touch 
look ugly unless I temporarily change the tabSize and some comments 
don't use tabs so I can't just replace all 8 spaces with 1 tab. For 
reference, my config files for gcc are available at [0].

- Tim

[0] https://gist.github.com/timll/1c4c542c7c98e3610c14aec19cdf7e91

> 
> I'm hoping to add this to my newbies guide.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
>