* On 13 Sep 2014, Óscar Pereira wrote: > > >I'll observe that whatever the prettifier tool, the configuration that > >results in the smallest diff is the one that most accurately describes > >the current code. At this stage of mutt's life, I'm more interested in > >that than in fitting a prescriptive recipe at some cost to the patches > >that reside in the wild. > > Could you clarify this paragraph? It made very little sense to me...
Mutt is very mature (for better or worse) and there are many patches out there, independently maintained by third parties. When it comes to using tools to reformat code, I think it's more useful today to have a coding standard that describes the current code than it is to reformat the code to some specific ideal. So rather than use an existing indent.pro that results in large changesets, I'd like to see what indent.pro someone can invent -- or a config for some other code-prettifying tool -- that results in a small changeset against the current code. Or in other words: there's an indent.pro for the standard we say we follow. But what config or tool describes the standard we actually follow? -- David Champion • [email protected]
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