If you intend to patch and contribute to awesome, please respect the following guidelines. Imitate the existing code style. For concrete rules: - Use 4 spaces indentation, do not use tabulator characters; - Place braces alone on new lines, and do not place braces for single line statement where it is not needed, i.e no: if(bla) { x = 1; } - Do not put a space after if, for, while or function call statements; - The preferred line length is 80 characters; - Use /* */ for comments; - Use the API: there's a list of a_*() function you should use instead of the standard libc ones. There is also common API for linked list, tabulars, etc; - Be clear in what you do; - Write documentation for any new functions, options, whatever. A vim modeline is set in each file to respect this.