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About perltidy in Emacs:

I'm not sure I understand, isn't that just a shell-command-on-region command after a mark-whole-buffer?

Yes, these are parts of the solution. The other parts are:

Be able to restrict the perltidy-run to the current function, or the current region (i.e. avoid cosmetic changes in untouched places of the file which mess up VC history)
Don't let .tdy and .ERR files mess up your source directories
Present the source before and after tidying in an ediff session (with a bit of fine print like re-using an existing ediff session, so that you can re-run the command from within the ediff session, e.g. after accepting some changes)

...And indeed, indenting can be a mess. But it is improving. That's what I get with "hot" cperl-mode.el and PBP settings. The closing braces are under the first nonspace character of the line containing the opening braces, which I find ok.

Note the newline before the last semicolon. This indicates that this semicolon is a new statement (or superfluous)!

for my $x (@x) {
    my %h = (
        'truncate' => {
            'desc'  => 'shorten a file',
            'usage' => [
                'truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH',
                'truncate EXPR,LENGTH',
            ]
        }
    );
}
;
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In reply to Re^5: How has your coding style changed over the years? by haj
in thread How has your coding style changed over the years? by stevieb

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