We all know that deadlines and/or critical bugfixes and make us forget a bit about source formatting guidelines. Or sometimes you need to work with 3rd party source code which seems to have been coded by someone who doesn't know the meaning of whitespace and readability. What is your favorite tool to tabulate your code (or 3rd party code) to your specification?
I absolutely cannot get this to work in Delphi 2007. I install it and it seems fine until I try to use it. I then spend about 30 minutes trying to close all the exceptions before it finally causes Delphi to close. :(
John Kraft
2008-10-10 21:36:52
Hm have not tried it on 2007. But if I magage to get it to work I let you know.
Gamecat
2008-10-10 21:43:55
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My IDE, IntelliJ, does this while I check in or with a keystroke.
Eric Wendelin
2008-10-10 21:33:19
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Perl is the language I use most, and perltidy does a great job.
douglashunter
2008-10-10 21:37:18
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I like Visual Studio's autoformat feature. It's all mass-market and The Man's Tool, but hey, it works & I can read their formatting.
Paul Nathan
2008-10-10 21:41:27
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I personally use PolyStyle as it supports many, many languages, but I'm curious about alternatives, hence the question.
Andrew Moore
2008-10-10 21:43:37
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One can also use Uncrustify and the UniversalIndentGUI, also good for mass tagging.
hangy
2008-10-10 21:50:13
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My favorite tool is indent. It is available off-the shelf in most Unix distributions. It has tens of options to accommodate most C style conventions. On Windows it can be easily installed through Cygwin. Having said that, automated code formatting should be your last resort. No tool can format code as well as a good programmer.
Diomidis Spinellis
2008-10-11 18:27:47