[Libvir] Re: revised proposal: remove all indentation directives

As for the emacs directives, I'm divided. On one hand, it's nice to record project-wide guidelines in a way that's hard to miss. On the other, it's a shame to require this mark-up in every single .c and .h file. While I was planning to add 7 lines to each of the remaining 24 files, consider this alternative: Remove all such directives and instead instruct (via HACKING or some such file) developers to use a small .emacs snippet that defines the desired style for code in a libvirt/ subdir. Then, the style would be defined in just one place, in case we ever change it. For example, add this to your Emacs start-up file: ;;; When editing C in libvirt, indent using spaces, not TABs. (add-hook 'c-mode-hook '(lambda () (if (string-match "/libvirt/" (buffer-file-name)) (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))) and it has the same effect as inserting the following comment at the end of every file (assuming your working directory name matches): /* * Local variables: * indent-tabs-mode: nil * End: */