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From: dy@mtgzx.att.com (D Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: help on ctext switch indentation customization
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Date: 16 Oct 90 16:42:46 GMT
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I have been trying to use the  different  available parameters  in ctext
to control the behavior of indentation.   I would like to set up the
switch indentation parameters so that the below indentation  is achieved
with switch  and case statements.


switch (a)
{
case 'a':
    /* comment */
case 'b':
    /* comment */
}

I  added the the below line to my .ezinit as stated in the ctext.help.   

     addfiletype .c ctext
"ctext-switch-level-indent=4;ctext-switch-label-undent=4" 

My understanding is that this should get me the above indentation.  What
I have noticed instead is that after the first case statement (case
'a'), the case 'b' starts to indent to the left, beyond the switch.   In
fact, I noticed the indentation for switch and case statements will not
work period if  ctext-switch-level-indent  is  NOT  double the amount of
ctext-switch-label-undent parameter.

I tried looking at the code (ctext) where the indentation is done.  I
had a tough time trying to understand it.   Thus I couldn't even  try to
fix it.  Is there anyone out there who can help me out??
     

thanks,

David K. Yip  (dy@mtgzx.att.com)
(201) 957-5544
AT&T Bell Laboratories
MT 3E-437, 200 Laurel Ave
Middletown, NJ 07748