Is there a mode that helps enforce coding guidelines?

[Sandip Chitale]

Well, there are some modes like JDEE (for Java) which integrate some external
utilities which check the style e.g. checkstyle. When run the utility emits
compiler error style output in a buffer. The error messages are hyperlinked to
the source. Integration is not exactly the way you asked for but it is useful.

sandip

petter_wintzell@yahoo.com (Petter Wintzell) wrote in message 
news:<f0077d93.0305280605.3f2e9e83@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an Emacs mode that can help a programmer follow a set of
> coding guidelines and style rules? I am thinking of the simple rules
> that exist in many companies and projects regarding line length,
> comment style, indent style, hanging braces, variable names and what
> not.
> 
> I would like a mode that highlighted the text when I broke a
> guideline. It would also be nice if the mode could help me correct the
> error.
> 
> One thing that would also be nice is if one could switch between
> different rule sets, so that I can easily have one set of rules when
> coding at work, one when coding at home, one when participating in a
> particular open source project, etc.
> 
> Is there any such mode or functionality?
> 
> Regards,
> /Petter