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In GNU Emacs 19.25.3 of Sun Aug 14 1994 on gza-client1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3)

This is more of a change request than a bug report.  It's a request
for a feature that I've wanted to see added to a C mode for a long
time now.  Since active development is being done on cc-mode, and it
seems to be a pretty complete mode, I'm suggesting that someone add it
to cc-mode.  I can't do it myself; the cc-mode code is simply too
obtuse for me :-).

What I'd like is for there to be some function that I can run, either
in a hook or by hand, when I load a C file into Emacs, to get Emacs to
automatically realize what formatting parameters it should use when
editing the file.

In other words, I don't want to have to automatically tweak
c-offsets-alist when I load a file that someone else created that uses
a style different from my own.  I'd like to tell cc-mode, "Look at the
code in this file and figure out from it how to format any new code
that I write."

It may be impossible for such a function to get things exactly right,
but it could probably come pretty close pretty easily.

If you implement something like this, I owe you a beer.  It doesn't
count if it already exists and I don't know about it :-).

Thanks,

Jonathan Kamens  |  OpenVision Technologies, Inc.  |   jik@cam.ov.com