[vox-tech] emacs formatting

[Jonathan Stickel]

I'm an amateur when it comes to emacs hacks, but I suspect you'll need
to add appropriate lines for each mode to your ~/.emacs file.  Probably
cut and paste will do much of it, though.

Jonathan


Charles McLaughlin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am hoping someone can point me in the write direction.  I want to 
> change how emacs formats code.  I'm very picky about spacing and 
> brackets.  If I have to make the change for every mode that is fine, but 
> I'd prefer to make the change once and have it apply to all types of 
> code I use.  The modes I'm mainly concerned about now are C/C++, PHP and 
> Perl.
> 
> Here is an example of how I like to format things:
> 
> if(foo)
> {
>   doSomething();
> }
> 
> but in some situations emacs formats code like this:
> 
> if(foo)
>   {
>     doSomething();
>   }
> 
> 
> apparently most of the world formats code like this:
> 
> if(foo) {
>   doSomething();
> }
> 
> That just doesn't work for me though. :)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Charles
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