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+## Code formatting
+
+We use [AStyle 2.06](https://sourceforge.net/projects/astyle/files/astyle/astyle%202.06/) to format the code. The command line for formatting the code according to the style is:
+
+```bash
+AStyle --style=allman --convert-tabs --align-pointer=name --align-reference=name --indent=spaces --indent-namespaces --indent-col1-comments --pad-oper --pad-header --unpad-paren --keep-one-line-blocks --close-templates $(git ls-files *.cpp *.h *.c *.hpp)
+```
+
+**If in doubt, check the source around you and follow that style!**
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 Yes, the code sucks. Hopefully we will be able to remove this statement from the README one day, but I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō, so obviously the code is ugly and not well designed.
 
-### Code formatting
-
-We use [AStyle 2.06](https://sourceforge.net/projects/astyle/files/astyle/astyle%202.06/) to format the code. The command line for formatting the code according to the style is:
-
-```bash
-AStyle --style=allman --convert-tabs --align-pointer=name --align-reference=name --indent=spaces --indent-namespaces --indent-col1-comments --pad-oper --pad-header --unpad-paren --keep-one-line-blocks --close-templates $(git ls-files *.cpp *.h *.c *.hpp)
-```
-
-**If in doubt, check the source around you and follow that style!**
-
 ## Requirements
 
 - **Radare2**: Make sure that, when cloning the project, you use `git clone --recurse-submodules` or run `git submodule init` and `git submodule update` to clone the correct radare2 version. Then execute the following command in the radare2 folder: