Function: c-toggle-auto-newline

c-toggle-auto-newline is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in cc-cmds.el.gz.

Signature

(c-toggle-auto-newline &optional ARG)

Documentation

Toggle auto-newline feature.

Optional numeric ARG, if supplied, turns on auto-newline when positive, turns it off when negative, and just toggles it when zero or left out.

Turning on auto-newline automatically enables electric indentation.

When the auto-newline feature is enabled (indicated by "/la" on the mode line after the mode name) newlines are automatically inserted after special characters such as brace, comma, semi-colon, and colon.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Key Bindings

Aliases

c-toggle-auto-state (obsolete since 22.1)

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-cmds.el.gz
(defun c-toggle-auto-newline (&optional arg)
  "Toggle auto-newline feature.
Optional numeric ARG, if supplied, turns on auto-newline when
positive, turns it off when negative, and just toggles it when zero or
left out.

Turning on auto-newline automatically enables electric indentation.

When the auto-newline feature is enabled (indicated by \"/la\" on the
mode line after the mode name) newlines are automatically inserted
after special characters such as brace, comma, semi-colon, and colon."
  (interactive "P")
  (setq c-auto-newline
	(c-calculate-state arg (and c-auto-newline c-electric-flag)))
  (if c-auto-newline (setq c-electric-flag t))
  (c-update-modeline)
  (c-keep-region-active))