c-offsets-alist

c-offsets-alist is a variable defined in `cc-vars.el'.
Its value is
nil


Documentation:
Association list of syntactic element symbols and indentation offsets.
As described below, each cons cell in this list has the form:

(SYNTACTIC-SYMBOL . OFFSET)

When a line is indented, CC Mode first determines the syntactic
context of it by generating a list of symbols called syntactic
elements. The global variable `c-syntactic-context' is bound to the
that list. Each element in the list is in turn a list where the first
element is a syntactic symbol which tells what kind of construct the
indentation point is located within. More elements in the syntactic
element lists are optional. If there is one more and it isn't nil,
then it's the anchor position for that construct.

After generating the syntactic context for the line, CC Mode
calculates the absolute indentation: First the base indentation is
found by using the anchor position for the first syntactic element
that provides one. If none does, zero is used as base indentation.
Then CC Mode looks at each syntactic element in the context in turn.
It compares the car of the syntactic element against the
SYNTACTIC-SYMBOL's in `c-offsets-alist'. When it finds a match, it
adds OFFSET to the base indentation. The sum of this calculation is
the absolute offset for line being indented.

If the syntactic element does not match any in the `c-offsets-alist',
the element is ignored.

OFFSET can specify an offset in several different ways:

If OFFSET is nil then it's ignored.

If OFFSET is an integer then it's used as relative offset, i.e. it's
added to the base indentation.

If OFFSET is one of the symbols `+', `-', `++', `--', `*', or `/'
then a positive or negative multiple of `c-basic-offset' is added to
the base indentation; 1, -1, 2, -2, 0.5, and -0.5, respectively.

If OFFSET is a symbol with a value binding then that value, which
must be an integer, is used as relative offset.

If OFFSET is a vector then its first element, which must be an
integer, is used as an absolute indentation column. This overrides
the previous base indentation and the relative offsets applied to
it, and it becomes the new base indentation.

If OFFSET is a function or a lambda expression then it's called with
a single argument containing the cons of the syntactic symbol and
the anchor position (or nil if there is none). The return value
from the function is then reinterpreted as an offset specification.

If OFFSET is a list then its elements are evaluated recursively as
offset specifications. If the first element is any of the symbols
below then it isn't evaluated but instead specifies how the
remaining offsets in the list should be combined. If it's something
else then the list is combined according the method `first'. The
valid combination methods are:

`first' -- Use the first offset (that doesn't evaluate to nil).
`min' -- Use the minimum of all the offsets. All must be either
relative or absolute - they can't be mixed.
`max' -- Use the maximum of all the offsets. All must be either
relative or absolute - they can't be mixed.
`add' -- Add all the evaluated offsets together. Exactly one of
them may be absolute, in which case the result is
absolute. Any relative offsets that preceded the
absolute one in the list will be ignored in that case.

`c-offsets-alist' is a style variable. This means that the offsets on
this variable are normally taken from the style system in CC Mode
(see `c-default-style' and `c-style-alist'). However, any offsets
put explicitly on this list will override the style system when a CC
Mode buffer is initialized (there is a variable
`c-old-style-variable-behavior' that changes this, though).

Here is the current list of valid syntactic element symbols:

string -- Inside multi-line string.
c -- Inside a multi-line C style block comment.
defun-open -- Brace that opens a function definition.
defun-close -- Brace that closes a function definition.
defun-block-intro -- The first line in a top-level defun.
class-open -- Brace that opens a class definition.
class-close -- Brace that closes a class definition.
inline-open -- Brace that opens an in-class inline method.
inline-close -- Brace that closes an in-class inline method.
func-decl-cont -- The region between a function definition's
argument list and the function opening brace
(excluding K&R argument declarations). In C, you
cannot put anything but whitespace and comments
between them; in C++ and Java, throws declarations
and other things can appear in this context.
knr-argdecl-intro -- First line of a K&R C argument declaration.
knr-argdecl -- Subsequent lines in a K&R C argument declaration.
topmost-intro -- The first line in a topmost construct definition.
topmost-intro-cont -- Topmost definition continuation lines.
annotation-top-cont -- Topmost definition continuation line where only
annotations are on previous lines.
annotation-var-cont -- A continuation of a C (or like) statement where
only annotations are on previous lines.
member-init-intro -- First line in a member initialization list.
member-init-cont -- Subsequent member initialization list lines.
inher-intro -- First line of a multiple inheritance list.
inher-cont -- Subsequent multiple inheritance lines.
block-open -- Statement block open brace.
block-close -- Statement block close brace.
brace-list-open -- Open brace of an enum or static array list.
brace-list-close -- Close brace of an enum or static array list.
brace-list-intro -- First line in an enum or static array list.
brace-list-entry -- Subsequent lines in an enum or static array list.
brace-entry-open -- Subsequent lines in an enum or static array
list that start with an open brace.
statement -- A C (or like) statement.
statement-cont -- A continuation of a C (or like) statement.
statement-block-intro -- The first line in a new statement block.
statement-case-intro -- The first line in a case "block".
statement-case-open -- The first line in a case block starting with brace.
substatement -- The first line after an if/while/for/do/else.
substatement-open -- The brace that opens a substatement block.
substatement-label -- Labeled line after an if/while/for/do/else.
case-label -- A "case" or "default" label.
access-label -- C++ private/protected/public access label.
label -- Any ordinary label.
do-while-closure -- The "while" that ends a do/while construct.
else-clause -- The "else" of an if/else construct.
catch-clause -- The "catch" or "finally" of a try/catch construct.
comment-intro -- A line containing only a comment introduction.
arglist-intro -- The first line in an argument list.
arglist-cont -- Subsequent argument list lines when no
arguments follow on the same line as the
arglist opening paren.
arglist-cont-nonempty -- Subsequent argument list lines when at
least one argument follows on the same
line as the arglist opening paren.
arglist-close -- The solo close paren of an argument list.
stream-op -- Lines continuing a stream operator construct.
inclass -- The construct is nested inside a class definition.
Used together with e.g. `topmost-intro'.
cpp-macro -- The start of a C preprocessor macro definition.
cpp-macro-cont -- Inside a multi-line C preprocessor macro definition.
friend -- A C++ friend declaration.
objc-method-intro -- The first line of an Objective-C method definition.
objc-method-args-cont -- Lines continuing an Objective-C method definition.
objc-method-call-cont -- Lines continuing an Objective-C method call.
extern-lang-open -- Brace that opens an "extern" block.
extern-lang-close -- Brace that closes an "extern" block.
inextern-lang -- Analogous to the `inclass' syntactic symbol,
but used inside "extern" blocks.
namespace-open, namespace-close, innamespace
-- Similar to the three `extern-lang' symbols, but for
C++ "namespace" blocks.
module-open, module-close, inmodule
-- Similar to the three `extern-lang' symbols, but for
CORBA IDL "module" blocks.
composition-open, composition-close, incomposition
-- Similar to the three `extern-lang' symbols, but for
CORBA CIDL "composition" blocks.
template-args-cont -- C++ template argument list continuations.
inlambda -- In the header or body of a lambda function.
lambda-intro-cont -- Continuation of the header of a lambda function.
inexpr-statement -- The statement is inside an expression.
inexpr-class -- The class is inside an expression. Used e.g. for
Java anonymous classes.

You can customize this variable.