On 06/18/2015 10:05 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > >> On 18 June 2015 at 10:28, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> However, I can't see how I could define a new C style there without >>> pushing the "local variables" feature well beyond its intended use, and >>> triggering the confirmation prompts. >> >> We wouldn't want to define a new C style, but in general the items >> I have in my config over the Stroustrup defaults are going to be there >> because I've noticed something where Stroustrup doesn't indent right... > > As far as I can see, the difference bwteen stroustrup style and yours is > a few tweaks to c-offsets-alist and c-hanging-braces-alist. I'm not > sure how to do that from .dir-locals.el. > >>> If we take Dan's patch, every Emacs user who hasn't already configured a >>> suitable style profits. Users who have may have to adjust their >>> configuration to work with or around Dan's patch. >> >> Is there some way to tell whether your emacs has picked up the local >> style info rather than the one you have in your .emacs ? > > The obvious way is to check the buffer-local variables. Buffer-local > variable c-indentation-style is the name of the style in use. Without > anything in .emacs or local variables, it's "gnu". With your > (c-add-style "qemu" qemu-c-style) in .emacs, it should be "qemu". With > Dan's .dir-locals.el, it should be "stroustrup". > > When you can't or don't want to create or modify a .dir-locals.el, you > can do something like this instead: > > (dir-locals-set-class-variables 'qemu '((c-mode . ((c-file-style . > "qemu"))))) > (dir-locals-set-directory-class "~/work/qemu" 'qemu) > > This *overrides* .dir-locals.el in my testing. >
ping -- any love for this for 2.5?
