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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Searching online "indent" |
| Date | 2015-06-04 16:52 -0400 |
| Organization | Self |
| Message-ID | <5570BAA7.2020907@verizon.net> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <cta0gdFr31aU1@mid.individual.net> <Netbeans-20150604170036@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <20150604125943.8fa4c0b46f4ab3a05bda7d8f@gmail.com> <87oakvnwlk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <beautifier-20150604205721@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> |
On 06/04/2015 02:58 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes: >> That requirement got snipped so it's easy to have missed it. I wonder >> if the suggestion to use NetBeans has the same flaw. > > Yeah. I want to totally neutralize any formatting decision > made by the original author. That is, two source codes that > have the same sequence of tokens but were formatted by > different authors should give the same result. That's an understandable goal, but the tools I've used that had anything close to that ability, didn't go quite that far. The tool I'm most familiar with is GNU indent: it will insert line breaks where required by the style rules that it is applying, including maximum line lengths, and will remove line breaks that are prohibited by that style, and will break up overly long lines - but it will not merge short lines. Without such mergers, the normalization you're hoping to achieve won't happen. Personally, I don't mind, because I sometimes insert more newlines than be explained by any hard-and-fast style rule, in order to emphasize some aspect of the structure of my statements that isn't covered by any of those rules.
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Re: Searching online "indent" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-06-04 15:54 +1200
Re: Searching online "indent" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 07:22 -0700
Re: Searching online "indent" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 08:55 -0700
Re: Searching online "indent" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 09:35 -0700
Re: Searching online "indent" Etienne Prud'homme <e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 12:59 -0400
Re: Searching online "indent" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-04 19:43 +0100
Re: Searching online "indent" Etienne <e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 15:09 -0400
Re: Searching online "indent" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-06-04 16:52 -0400
Re: Searching online "indent" Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-06-04 16:37 -0500
Re: Searching online "indent" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-06-04 18:02 -0400
Re: Searching online "indent" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-04 23:37 +0100
Re: Searching online "indent" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-06-05 07:23 +1200
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