On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 16:11 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > The idea is a very good one in principle, but my short experiment with
> > the provided .dir-locals.el didn't give me BSD style brace
> > indentation. It works if we can do those "unsafe" things, but then we
> > surely don't want to have a user prompted to accept the settings each
> > time. If .dir-locals.el won't do what we need on its own, it seems to
> > me hardly worth having.
The main win will be to get 4-space tabs for casual observers, so the
files don't look crappy to newbies.
> However, it does work if you add this at the beginning of the c-mode list:
>
> (c-file-style . "bsd")
You are right, that should be added.
