I would guess that some people might have different formatting schemes and
just want the indentation done, but that's not a very high priority for me
personally.  I just use the format tool, so it might make sense to only
implement that in your software.

--
Knute Snortum



On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 9:24 AM Paolo Prete <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know this, but what is the concrete benefit of having both of them?
>
> Il ven 14 giu 2024, 17:00 Knute Snortum <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 4:57 AM Paolo Prete <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> About the automatic formatting, prior to adding it, I need advice from
>>> you and other people from this ML as well.
>>> From what I see, Frescobaldi has some options:  like "re-indent" and
>>> "format". What is the use of "re-indent" if "format" already indents the
>>> code?
>>>
>>
>> From what I can tell, "re-indent" only does formatting that involves
>> indenting, while "format" completely reformats the code.  To illustrate,
>> say we have:
>>
>> {
>> c''4 4 4 4}
>>
>> If we re-indent, it will look like this:
>>
>> {
>>   c''4 4 4 4}
>>
>> But if we format, it will look like this:
>>
>> {
>>   c''4 4 4 4
>> }
>>
>>
>> --
>> Knute Snortum
>>
>>
>>

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