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@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ If you use tabs, set them to 8 columns
</p>
<p>
+Line width: the preferred width to fill comments and code in Mesa is 78
+columns. Exceptions are sometimes made for clarity (e.g. tabular data is
+sometimes filled to a much larger width so that extraneous carriage returns
+don't obscure the table).
+</p>
+
+<p>
Brace example:
</p>
<pre>
@@ -81,10 +88,26 @@ Brace example:
else {
bar;
}
+
+ switch (condition) {
+ case 0:
+ foo();
+ break;
+
+ case 1: {
+ ...
+ break;
+ }
+
+ default:
+ ...
+ break;
+ }
</pre>
<p>
Here's the GNU indent command which will best approximate my preferred style:
+(Note that it won't format switch statements in the preferred way)
</p>
<pre>
indent -br -i3 -npcs --no-tabs infile.c -o outfile.c