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# HexChat Hacking Guidelines
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Just some tips if you're going to help with HexChat code (patches etc):
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* Use tabs, not spaces, to indent and align code.
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* Use a tab size of 4 (most editors will let you choose this).
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Type :set ts=4 in vim/gvim.
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* Try to stick to the same consistant coding style (vertically aligned braces, a space after if, while, functions etc.):
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```C
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void
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routine (void)
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{
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if (function (a, b, c))
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{
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x = a + 1;
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}
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}
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```
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* Don't use "//" C++ style comments, some compilers don't like them.
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* When opening a file with Unix level functions (open, read/write, close)
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as opposed to the C level functions (fopen, fwrite/fread, fclose), use
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the OFLAGS macro. This makes sure it'll work on Win32 as well as Unix e.g.:
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<pre>fh = open ("file", OFLAGS | O_RDONLY);</pre>
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* Use closesocket() for sockets, and close() for normal files.
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* Don't read() from sockets, use recv() instead.
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* Patches are only accepted as a Github Pull request: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests
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