[vdr] Re: Request small comment change to edit vdr code withemacs

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> writes:
>
>
> > Can't you just tell emacs to go into C++ mode?
>
> The problem is that you have choosen a file suffix that usually
> reserved for C file.
Well, at some point I have completely switched to C++ and didn't
want to have to get used to a new filename extension, that's why
I sticked to *.c.

> I could set up emacs to handle *.c file as C++, but emacs would also
> switch to C++ mode for regular c files.
>
>
> > If I start adding such comments for particular editors,
> > there will probably be quite I few I'd ahve to add.
>
> You have a point.
>
> The other solution is to change the suffix of your files, but this may
> be a problem for your CVS (or whatever revision system you use).
>
> By default emacs use C++ for the following suffix:
> .cc .hh .hpp .C .H .cpp .cxx .hxx .c++ .h++
I want to be able to do things like

  ls -ltr *.[hc]

so an extension with more than one character is ruled out.
Plus, I don't want to have to press the shift key, so uppercase
characters are ruled out, too.

> I think that the suffix '.cc' and '.C' are most popular. I hope that
> other people more experienced in C++ than me will confirm.
>
> Anyway, it's your choice, I can certainly live with the perl one-liner
> (but producing a patch is more painful...)
I'll stay with *.c ;-)

Klaus