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in reply to Re^5: How has your coding style changed over the years?
in thread How has your coding style changed over the years?

I'm sure you know this already, but just in case

> Be able to restrict the perltidy-run to the current function,

M-x mark-defun aka C-M-h selects the current function.

> or the current region (i.e. avoid cosmetic changes in untouched places of the file which mess up VC history)

That's what M-x shell-command-on-region does, if you don't mark-whole-buffer

IOW the right combination of these three commands do the job.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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