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Adding Styles
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   If none of the built-in styles is appropriate, you'll probably want
to add a new "style definition".  Styles are kept in the
`c-style-alist' variable, but you should never modify this variable
directly.  Instead, CC Mode provides the function `c-add-style' that
you can use to easily add new styles or change existing styles.  This
function takes two arguments, a STYLENAME string, and an association
list DESCRIPTION of style customizations.  If STYLENAME is not already
in `c-style-alist', the new style is added, otherwise the style is
changed to the new DESCRIPTION.  This function also takes an optional
third argument, which if non-`nil', automatically applies the new style
to the current buffer.

   The sample `.emacs' file provides a concrete example of how a new
style can be added and automatically set.  *Note Sample .emacs File::.