[much snipped on bracket matching in C]
 
I've been told by folks who have programmed in C for numerous years that
my way of matching brackets drives them mad. I have the same feeling about
their style.
 
Since C is a freeform language, I am surprised at the common convention
of trailing the terminating bracket at the end of a statement.  I have
the habit of aligning brackets on the same column to eliminate the problem
of locating matched pairs (and thus the need for a locator function in
an editor).
 
        Them:           { statement;
                                  function(); }
 
        Me:                     { statement;
                                  function();
                }
 
It looks strange at first, but it has saved me a few yanked folicles.
 
This costs a line and makes paging up/down more frequent, but with
terminal emulators becoming more flexible and configurable, this isn't
much of a problem.  Combined with Qedit's ability to handle more than
24 lines at a time make the mess workable.
 
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