+1 on changing the format. Picking a specific format is bound to annoy some people, but I don't think anyone prefers the current one. The last option mentioned looks the best to me.
- Adam On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Erik Hesselink <hessel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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