[python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

[Mark Dickinson]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On May 09, 2010, at 09:01 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>>I'm happy to see the curses module re-indented.  Does anyone have a
>>set of settings for Emacs or for GNU indent for Python's C indentation
>>style?
>
> In Emacs, visit a C file and type:
>
> C-c . python RET
>
> 'python' is a standard c-mode indentation style, however it's set up to use
> tabs.  It should be updated, maybe to a 'python3' style?  Here's a quick and
> dirty hack:
>
> (c-add-style "python3" '("python"
>                         (indent-tabs-mode . nil)
>                         (c-basic-offset . 4)
>                         ))

See also

http://wiki.python.org/moin/EmacsEditor

where there's a 'python-new' style that can be added to an .emacs file.

Mark