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From: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Electric c/c++/Pascal mode for GNU emacs?
Message-ID: <211@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 08:03:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: tut.211
Posted: Fri Sep 25 08:03:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 01:56:20 EDT
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Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
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heiser@ethz.UUCP writes:
>UNIPRESS Emacs comes with what is called Electric C Mode, which does much more
>than what GNU Emacs c mode does (mainly indenting).

(Emphatically *not* an entry in "my editor is better than yours...")

If you're concerned primarily with auto-indentation, is it possible
that you haven't looked into all the c-* variables in GNU Emacs C
mode?  In particular, c-auto-newline does some fairly impressive
things with figuring your indentations out for you on the fly without
even having to ask for indentation.  (And, of course, LF in C mode
does a newline-and-indent.)  Consider the following set of c-* vars:

(setq c-argdecl-indent 0
      c-auto-newline t
      c-brace-imaginary-offset 0
      c-brace-offset 0
      c-continued-statement-offset 0
      c-indent-level 8
      c-label-offset -8
      comment-column 40)

In the office where I last worked, this set of vars was used to give a
rigid style of the form

func(arg1, arg2)
int arg1;
char arg2;
{
	register foo;
	extern FILE *fp;

	if ((char)arg1 == arg2)
	{
		func2(&foo);
		fprintf(fp, "foo is %d\n", foo);
	}
	else
	{
		exit(1);
	}
}

I only had to type a single LF during the preparation of that
fragment, after the closing paren in the first line.  The rest
auto-indented on its own following any occurrences of {, }, or ;.
Give these a try; they may do what you want without having to hack up
Unipress' C stuff.
-- 
Karl