Does C not have the equivalent of Prettier?
I am curious what their editing process was that changed:
> assert(isxdigit((src+1)));
to
> if (!isxdigit(src+1)) return '\0';
There is clang-format, but it is not always easy to use on a code base because you don't want to have it run on imported/3rd party source which may mix in with your regular source tree. I've been meaning to use it on a project but only have run on an explicit list of files.
They said:
> I typed in the new code as that's faster than modifying the existing code
> But even if you fail in getting emacs to do sane formatting, not everything is lost: use indent.
> Now, again, GNU indent has the same brain-dead settings that GNU emacs has, which is why you need to give it a few command line options. However, that’s not too bad, because even the makers of GNU indent recognize the authority of K&R (the GNU people aren’t evil, they are just severely misguided in this matter), so you just give indent the options -kr -i8 (stands for K&R, 8 character indents), or use scripts/Lindent, which indents in the latest style.
> indent has a lot of options, and especially when it comes to comment re-formatting you may want to take a look at the man page. But remember: indent is not a fix for bad programming.
(Linux kernel coding style, https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style....)