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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
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Subject: Seeking Truly Electric-C mode for Gnu Emacs
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Date: 19 Jan 90 09:01:14 GMT
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Having recently been forced by circumstances to switch from using
Unipress Emacs -- which I really liked -- to Gnu Emacs -- which I'm
really coming to appreciate, except for the lack of a good SunView
bitmap-based terminal driver -- I find myself looking for a new C 
programming mode.

Can anyone supply a pointer to a *truly* electric C-mode?  Something
along the lines of Ray Dunn's C+ mode for MockLisp would be nice; in 
particular, something that understands that you really *do* want 
indentation after "if", "while", and "for" statements that aren't 
followed by braces.  Try as I might, I cannot get Gnu's c-mode to 
figure that one out.  (On the other hand, writing the helper functions 
to enable c-fill.el's c-comment mode on /* and disable is on */ was
pleasantly trivial :-)

I've already tried running C+ mode through translate-to-mocklisp, but
the things it does with MockLisp are too gross for the automated
translator to handle.  They're also too gross for me to translate by
hand, at least without more time than I have and a copy of the Elisp
Reference Manual!

So, that leaves me looking for a more powerful C mode.  Will the power
of the net come through again?
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
 mlandau@bbn.com			  in all this blood and thunder