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### 4.3 Styles

Most people only need to edit code formatted in just a few well-defined and consistent styles. For example, their organization might impose a “blessed” style that all its programmers must conform to. Similarly, people who work on GNU software will have to use the GNU coding style on C code. Some shops are more lenient, allowing some variety of coding styles, and as programmers come and go, there could be a number of styles in use. For this reason, VHDL Mode makes it convenient for you to set up logical groupings of customizations called styles, associate a single name for any particular style, and pretty easily start editing new or existing code using these styles. This chapter describes how to set up styles and how to edit your C code using styles.