Re^7: How would you indent this?

I agree that the "editor shouldn't interfere automatically". One of the worst editors I ever worked with was the UCSD Pascal system which forced its own idea of indentation live while editing, including disallowing multi-line comments. I run perltidy occasionally to clean up after things like a big code refactor, and I pretty much always use it to clean up code from PerlMonks questions.

The impressive thing about perltidy is that I have tuned it to produce almost exactly what I write most of the time. Some of the modern C++ pretty printer type tools are pretty good too. Modern Visual Studio can do a pretty good job and the C++ Code Style Formatter provided by Eclipse is very configurable aside from some weird omissions (why does it insist on a space before a : in a constructor declerator list?). So yes, pretty printing tools can get extremely close to making the same code style decisions I do, partly because I have thought hard about my style choices and understand what I want to achieve, so results are consistent and fairly easy to codify.

I apologize for the perceived attack on emacs. Never fear, I treat vi equally. :-D

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

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Re^8: How would you indent this? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 18, 2021 at 21:22 UTC
Perl::Tidy is an awesome tool. Unfortunately configuring it not so much. > I apologize for the perceived attack on emacs. Never fear, I treat vi equally. :-D Cheap attacks are cheap to get. That's the economics of FUD. Actually I like Komodo, it has indeed one feature I want to port back to emacs. Sadly it might not survive the next 5 years after Mozilla ended XUL and Activestate saw the need to Open Source it. Good luck! PS: No worries, I treat Pythonistas equally! :-D Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^9: How would you indent this? by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 18, 2021 at 21:45 UTC
Actually I like Komodo ... Sadly it might not survive the next 5 years I may not care in five years, but assuming I do it isn't likely to suddenly stop working the day ActiveState stop actively supporting it. PS: I know some fine people who prefer Python - I don't hold that against them (much). I know some fine people who use PHP - I try manfully not to hold that against them. Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond	[reply]
Re^10: How would you indent this? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 18, 2021 at 21:55 UTC
> PS: I know some fine people who prefer Python - I don't hold that against them (much). I know some fine people who use PHP - I try manfully not to hold that against them. Neither do I, I like both Python and vim. It's the community which has nasty habits.° And there is usually a direct correlation between their own skills on the tool and the desire of badmouthing others.* Like I know a guy who can barely write a page of Python but keeps telling everyone that Perl is only a bunch of Regex. I'm an outspoken Anti-FUD activist, stoicism won't stop this. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) I don't like PHP tho, but I don't hold it against it's users. *) It's human, we all want to belong to a tribe and the more insecure we are, the bigger the desire to be better than the neighboring tribe.	[reply]
Re^11: How would you indent this? by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 18, 2021 at 22:16 UTC


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