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-;; Configuration for JDEE (Java Development Environment for Emacs)
-(jde-set-project-name "checkstyle")
-(jde-set-variables
- '(jde-db-source-directories (quote ("./src/checkstyle/")))
- '(jde-global-classpath (quote ("./classes/checkstyle" "./classes/tests" "./dist/checkstyle-1.4/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar")))
- '(jde-run-application-class "com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Main")
- '(jde-run-option-application-args (quote ("VerifierImpl.java")))
-
- ;; indent each level of indentation by 4 spaces
- '(c-basic-offset 4)
-)