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HexChat Hacking Guidelines

Just some tips if you're going to help with HexChat code (patches etc):

  • Use tabs, not spaces, to indent and align code.

  • Use a tab size of 4 (most editors will let you choose this). Type :set ts=4 in vim/gvim.

  • Try to stick to the same consistant coding style (vertically aligned braces, a space after if, while, functions etc.):

void
routine (void)
{
	if (function (a, b, c))
	{
		x = a + 1;
	}
}
  • Don't use "//" C++ style comments, some compilers don't like them.

  • When opening a file with Unix level functions (open, read/write, close) as opposed to the C level functions (fopen, fwrite/fread, fclose), use the OFLAGS macro. This makes sure it'll work on Win32 aswell as Unix e.g.:

    fh = open ("file", OFLAGS | O_RDONLY);
  • Use closesocket() for sockets, and close() for normal files.

  • Don't read() from sockets, use recv() instead.

  • Patches are only accepted as a Github Pull request: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests