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#### 6.3.2 Choosing a Style

When you create a new buffer, its style will be set from `c-default-style`. The factory default is the style `gnu`, except in Java and AWK modes where it’s `java` and `awk`.

Remember that if you set a style variable with the Customization interface or at the top level of your `.emacs` file before the style system is initialized (see Config Basics), this setting will override the one that the style system would have given the variable.

To set a buffer’s style interactively, use the command `C-c .` (see Other Commands). To set it from a file’s local variable list, File Styles.

User Option: c-default-style

  This variable specifies which style to install by default in new buffers. It takes either a style name string, or an association list of major mode symbols to style names:

  1. When `c-default-style` is a string, it must be an existing style name. This style is then used for all modes.
  2. When `c-default-style` is an association list, the mode language is looked up to find a style name string.
  3. If `c-default-style` is an association list where the mode language mode isn’t found then the special symbol ‘`other`’ is looked up. If it’s found then the associated style is used.
  4. If ‘`other`’ is not found then the ‘`gnu`’ style is used.

  In all cases, the style described in `c-default-style` is installed before the language hooks are run, so you can always override this setting by including an explicit call to `c-set-style` in your language mode hook, or in `c-mode-common-hook`.

  The standard value of `c-default-style` is `((java-mode . "java") (awk-mode . "awk") (other . "gnu"))`.

Variable: c-indentation-style

  This variable always contains the buffer’s current style name, as a string.

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