Since this is an android development forum I can suggest using the code formatter built into eclipse rather than re-invent the wheel. You can always adjust the settings to your liking and create your own profile for formatting if you do not like some of the built in ones. You can go to Window->Preferences and from there choose Java->Code Style->Formatter. There is also one that I use for C/C++ as well. Then just go to Edit->Format or Ctrl+Shift+F for the hotkey.
On Jan 13, 3:02 pm, Kenneth Adam Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently, as I was asking for help on IRC I posted my code. Someone said it > looked ugly. Of course, there are many coding preferences and one of them is > spacing style. I was thinking about writing a simple vim plugin that could > reformat source code to make it look according to a sample, and then I > thought, since I don't have much experience out there, and there are lots of > different languages that might handle this much much better than a > cumbersome and lengthy program in C to handle strings, I thought perhaps > that I might ask for some opinions and directions on this. C/C++ program or > vim plugin? Or what's more, it could be something that I haven't thought of > yet. > > The program should perform code tidying up and would be well suited to run > before a make command. > > I think that it should offer spacing and indenting options as well as some > comment formatting options. These should be able to be set by a gui that > offers an abstract and quick way to set it. Otherwise, the user would have > to learn even *more* commands and that's the last thing that I want. I want > an abstract gui that will be easy to set. > > This will offer very regular code formatting. Say you have a lot of nested > calls and you don't want to use tabs with space 8 because if you do it will > keep on trailing off the screen. Also, frequently there are often commands > that we like to use, but they are long. like... cout << "very long text"; > and we don't want to redo each of them individually, it would take forever. > or say someone else used an editor that it looked good in and now you use > yours and it looks like crap. whatever the reason, i want a tool that can be > run like a command but will offer a gui to format the code. > > After thinking this over, I've come up with a lot of ideas about how this > could be managed to provide a set of features/options that I don't want to > describe here. > > If you guys know of any other tools that do anything of the sort like what > i've described here, I'd like to know what they are so that I don't start > another project only to find that someone else has already created something > similar. Or if you have any suggestions, send them my way, or perhaps you > don't think that this project is worth a shot-whatever it is, speak out > about it.
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