On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 04:39:57PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > @@ -571,50 +571,11 @@ item, explaining its use. > 9) You've made a mess of it > --------------------------- > > -That's OK, we all do. You've probably been told by your long-time Unix > -user helper that ``GNU emacs`` automatically formats the C sources for > -you, and you've noticed that yes, it does do that, but the defaults it > -uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random > -typing - an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never > -make a good program). I feel like this patch makes the mistake a lot of doc patches do ... it removes some of the whimsical humourous comments that have been with us for years. I don't think this paragraph needs to be changed in the slightest. > -So, you can either get rid of GNU emacs, or change it to use saner > -values. To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file: > - [...] > - > -This will make emacs go better with the kernel coding style for C > -files below ``~/src/linux-trees``. > +``GNU emacs`` automatically formats the C sources for you. However, > +the defaults it uses are less than desirable. Use a version of emacs > +that support directory local variables such that it automatically > +picks up the settings from .dir-locals.el in the kernel top level > +directory. How about: So, you can either get rid of GNU emacs, or change it to use saner defaults. Versions of emacs since [...] support directory local variables and will pick up the settings from .dir-locals.el in the kernel top level directory.
