On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Tillmann Rendel > <ren...@informatik.uni-marburg.de> wrote: >> >> 1. change `cabal init` to use the pretty printer. >> 2. expose the pretty printer at the command line. > > Agreed on both points. We should add (2) as `cabal format` (similar to > go-fmt) or something like that.
I would love to have this, it would make editing cabal files with tools much more appealing. What would be ideal would be a way to edit the files while preserving whitespace. But I know from haskell-src-exts that this is a very tricky thing to get right. Regards, Erik _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel