Outside of Eclipse, I use AStyle
On Jan 13, 7:14 pm, clark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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