One of my favorites is tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/). It has a bunch of wrappers for a variety of languages. It was originally intended to 'tidy' up HTML, but has come a long away, and is quite useful!
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 18:02, 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >
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