Setting up editors for the GNU/GCC coding style?

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 28/07/2022 22:43, Iannetta Paul wrote:

> About configuring recent editors to follow the GNU coding style, I don't 
> really know but it should always be possible to register a hook that 
> will run `indent` when the file is saved.

I don't think that's a good idea.  It will result in quite a lot of 
minor changes that will just make diffs confused.  We do have a style, 
but not everything is exactly as GNU indent would lay it out (plus GNU 
indent says quite clearly that it can't handle C++).

R.