Re: WIP pgindent replacement
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-22T03:15:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > Attached is a WIP possible replacement for pgindent. Instead of a shell > script invoking a mishmash of awk and sed, some of which is pretty > impenetrable, it uses a single engine (perl) to do all the pre and post > indent processing. Hm ... this should offer the chance of running on Windows, but otherwise I'm not sure it does very much for us, if you still have to have a patched version of NetBSD indent underneath. > If anybody is so inclined, this could be used as a basis for removing > the use of bsd indent altogether, as has been suggested before, as well > as external entab/detab. Now *that* I would get excited about. But surely it would be a huge amount more work? regards, tom lane