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I work on some projects with indentation styles that I find really irritating. I'd like to view the code with a certain indentation style, but always save to disk with the prescribed indentation style.

Specifically, I like emacs default style of indentation on multi-line function arguments...

void foo(int a, int b,
         string c)

But the project is tab-only, single indent on everything...

void foo(int a, int b,
    string c)

Can I see the first case, but share the second?

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  • What about: disable auto-revert mode, then run a command (e.g., astyle) which formats the file to your team's style in your after-save-hook
    – nanny
    Sep 17, 2015 at 20:37
  • have you considered a version-control level formatting hook, e.g. git pre-commit hook?
    – erjoalgo
    Sep 13, 2018 at 18:47

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An obvious approach to this would be to

  • indent a copy of the buffer using c-mode; and then
  • put the copy's indent as display properties on the indentation space in the original buffer.

Note 1: Implementing this while keeping the ability to edit the buffer could be a nightmare, so I'd make the buffer read-only.
Note 2: Text properties are much faster than overlays, so I'd use them. Unless in the odd case where the original buffer's indent is 0 and c-mode's is not.

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  • This can be done with text properties by adding extra font-locking keywords. I'm more concerned about figuring out how the indent should be displayed instead.
    – wasamasa
    Jun 19, 2015 at 13:44

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