[convolvatron]

+100 for 'what do i turn off this time'

every release there is more and more 'sexiness' that breaks useful functionality. i can't even comprehend what someone did to gud.

it used to be that you opened up a tgz and it would nicely display a dired mode of the contents. not for a long time.

and c indenting used to just work- now it seems to be confused by looking for patterns that exist by convention, not as any part of the language specification...so indenting just doesn't work a lot of the time

and for some reason someone with truly awful taste gets to choose the color schemes for highlighting (font-lock). i used to be able to just turn it off...but that becomes increasingly difficult

for a 30 years emacs user, it just keeps getting worse all the time

[qwertyuiop924]

Font-lock is pretty easy to turn off. But then, the first thing I did when I installed Emacs was change the colorscheme to solarized dark, something I would reccomend to anybody.

As for the rest... I have no idea. There are a variety of C indent styles, and most are fairly standard (K&R, GNU, Linux, etc.), so I'm puzzled as to why it doesn't work, especially considering that CC mode has to also support C++ and Java, and so can't get too specific. If it really does suck that badly though, I'd hunt around for an alternate package.