how do I change default emacs format for `{}`

Question

The default format when I write a while statement is as follows:

  while(true)
    {


    }

I prefer to using the following:

  while(true)
  {


  }

Is there a way that I can customize emacs to following this format?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use c-set-style and friends to change which general style of indentation you want. You can also change individual pieces of the indentation engine to get something very personalized. See the EmacsWiki page for details. What you probably want (to a first approximation) is simply

(c-set-style "bsd")

in a hook, or

(setq c-default-style "bsd")

in your .emacs.