Re: [HACKERS] Running pgindent

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-22T02:04:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
If I ever get to run pgindent. I will make these changes, Tom.

> Well, *&^*^#$! I wasted hours cleaning up some of what I considered damage from
> the last pass through.
> Would it be possible to pass back through (i.e. pipe indent output to a filter)
> and fix at least points (1) and (2)? _That_ would be pretty easy to automate
> since the heuristics can be pretty simple:
> 
> if (first char is nonwhitespace) && (next word is "*") && (next line starts with
> word+paren)
> then compress whitespace
> 
> else if (first char is "}") && (next word is "/*")
> then compress whitespace
> 
> else
> write line as-is
> 
> I'll write the perl if you would be willing to use it?
> 
>                                                - Tom
> 
> 


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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us