Coding-Standards Assistance

This is WAY out of date. I've not done any serious C/C++ coding in a long time, and the C/C++ coding I was doing, I was too busy to resetup this stuff to work with. Consider this temporarily dead. If you want to take it off my hands, feel free.

The coding-standards assistance was written largely in response to a colleague's constant promotion of some similar hacks he had done in vi. When I mentioned to Johnathan that I was trying to do this sort of stuff, he forwarded me prepress.el (which I'm sure I still have a copy of somewhere), a collection of bits that he'd built on another collection of bits by someone called Constantine Rasmussen.

It's not much, but it does the following:

• Standard headers on files and functions (you need a bunch of templates for this)
• Key mappings to generate and update said headers
• Source-code control history extraction - this used work on Unix; I did some coding on Win95 but I didn't have the opportunity to test it out. Essentially it extracts the file creation date and the list of programmers involved from the SCCS file.
• Support for seperate project directories. This is also based on a Unixism - projects lived in ~/dev/PROJECT/compile. I need to tweak this to make it more customisable. The support features amounted to knowing where SCCS for that project lived, and handling compiles correctly.
• Assorted coding-standards checks and assists - lines must fit into 77 characters, certain indenting rules must be followed, not more than five levels of nested blocks, that sort of thing. Some of the stuff is in a non-working state, specifically the code to handle reformatting old comments/headers, sort out spacing around parens and equals signs, etc.

Things it still needs.

• Better SCCS integration, preferably through vc.el
• More flexible template handling.
• Support for languages other than C.

The Source

Download devhelp.el.

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