This manual is for CC Mode in Emacs.
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have the latest @ccmode{} release and might want to upgrade your copy
(see below).
-You should probably start by skimming through the entire chapter
-@ref{Commands} to get an overview of @ccmode{}'s capabilities.
+You should probably start by skimming through the entire Commands chapter
+(@pxref{Commands}) to get an overview of @ccmode{}'s capabilities.
After trying out some commands, you may dislike some aspects of
@ccmode{}'s default configuration. Here is an outline of how to
reindent a line manually after typing, say, a @samp{@}}. A few
keywords, such as @code{else}, also trigger electric action.
-You can inhibit the electric behaviour described here by disabling
+You can inhibit the electric behavior described here by disabling
electric minor mode (@pxref{Minor Modes}).
Common to all these keys is that they only behave electrically when
Additionally, you can configure @ccmode{} so that typing a slash at
the start of a line within a block comment will terminate the
comment. You don't need to have electric minor mode enabled to get
-this behaviour. @xref{Clean-ups}.
+this behavior. @xref{Clean-ups}.
In AWK mode, @samp{*} and @samp{/} do not delimit comments and are not
electric.
Remember that if you set a style variable with the Customization
interface or at the top level of your @file{.emacs} file before the
-style system is initialised (@pxref{Config Basics}), this setting will
+style system is initialized (@pxref{Config Basics}), this setting will
override the one that the style system would have given the variable.
To set a buffer's style interactively, use the command @kbd{C-c .}
isn't found then the special symbol @samp{other} is looked up instead.
When a comment line gets divided by @kbd{M-j} or the like, @ccmode{}
-inserts the comment line prefix from a neighbouring line at the start
+inserts the comment line prefix from a neighboring line at the start
of the new line. The default value of c-comment-prefix-regexp is
@samp{//+\\|\\**}, which matches C++ style line comments like
Only continuation lines like this are touched, @code{nil} is returned on
lines which are the start of an argument.
-Within a gcc @code{asm} block, @code{:} is recognised as an argument
+Within a gcc @code{asm} block, @code{:} is recognized as an argument
separator, but of course only between operand specifications, not in the
expressions for the operands.
@comment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Normally, the lines in a multi-line macro are indented relative to
-each other as though they were code. You can suppress this behaviour
+each other as though they were code. You can suppress this behavior
by setting the following user option:
@defopt c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros
templates do not fare so well. Sometimes a workaround is to refontify
the expression after typing the closing @samp{>}.
+@item
+In a @dfn{k&r region} (the part of an old-fashioned C function
+declaration which specifies the types of its parameters, coming
+between the parameter list and the opening brace), there should be at
+most 20 top-level parenthesis and bracket pairs. This limit has been
+imposed for performance reasons. If it is violated, the source file
+might be incorrectly indented or fontified.
+
@item
On loading @ccmode{}, sometimes this error message appears: