auto-indent research result and proposal

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 13:49 -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On sábado, 18 de janeiro de 2014 07:35:42, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > > 4 - it uses and expect tabstop=8 (kernel's guide expects the same), but
> > > escaped new lines will look unindented if you use tabstop!=8.
> > 
> > I don't understand that.
> 
> I think he means continuation lines. There are three solutions to them:
> 
> 1) align and enforce the tabstop size (this is Emacs default)
> [ tab  ]unsigned x = (a + b +
> [ tab  ][ tab   ].... c);

That's what our current code does

> 2) align with spaces, not tabs
> [ tab  ]unsigned x = (a + b +
> [ tab  ]..............c);
> 
> 3) don't align, just indent
> [ tab  ]unsigned x = (a + b +
> [ tab  ][ tab  ]c)
> ;

Yuck

/D