Re^2: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs

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Re^3: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by perrin (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2004 at 03:42 UTC
I use it constantly, on every single piece of code I write that's longer than a command-line. I've never had a single problem with it. Have you reported the bugs you've found?	[reply]
Re^4: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 07, 2004 at 18:10 UTC
No, it was before I got into the swing of things with reporting bugs and such. I just don't trust the thing anymore especially since it is a perl parser.	[reply]
Re^5: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by perrin (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2004 at 19:05 UTC
You do seem to use some pretty unusual code, based on things I've seen you post on perlmonks, so that could be the issue. You're still the first and only person who I've ever heard complain about bugs from perltidy though.	[reply]
Re^5: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2004 at 21:51 UTC
I just don't trust the thing anymore especially since it is a perl parser. I'd give it another whirl. Maybe there have been bug fixes since you last used it. It's certainly part of my standard Perl toolkit. I've used it a lot on large piles of evil code and have yet to have a problem.	[reply]
Re^3: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by rhythmicus (Sexton) on Aug 07, 2004 at 03:20 UTC
I don't use it often, but I've never had a problem with it personally. I mainly use it for downloaded code where the formatting was screwed up somehow. Sometimes, though, it has helped me to find a forgotten closing brace or some similar syntax mistake on my part.	[reply]
Re^3: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by Wassercrats (Initiate) on Aug 07, 2004 at 03:27 UTC
I read the warnings about Perltidy, but the only problem it gives me is formatting that I didn't ask for. I don't think it should be used on a large script that's not easy to test afterwards. All I use is: cd directory_of_PerlTidy perl perltidy -io -i=3 path_to_script_to _be_formatted I keep the above in a comment in the script it's used in. There should be a feature to automatically insert such a comment, with a time stamp of when it was titied.	[reply]
Re^4: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs by doom (Deacon) on Aug 10, 2004 at 06:59 UTC
vroom wrote: `cd directory_of_PerlTidy perl perltidy -io -i=3 path_to_script_to _be_formatt +ed` [download] I keep the above in a comment in the script it's used in. There should be a feature to automatically insert such a comment, If there's some boiler-plate that you want to appear in all of your code, you need an emacs templating system, such as template.el: http://emacs-template.sourceforge.net/ I've been working on an emacs lisp package to use template.el with perl, which I call "perlnow.el": http://obsidianrook.com/perlnow Even if you don't want to use my code, you might like to look at the template.el templates there that I set-up to use for perl code. (Briefly: perlnow.el is designed to automate some routine tasks in perl programming: jumping into writing code, doing a "compile/check" on the code, jumping into writing tests for your code, running the tests, and so on. I've been finding it useful, but I'm still turning up minor bugs.) with a time stamp of when it was tidied. There I can't help you much off hand, you'll need to do some hackery of your own, either in perl or elisp. What I would probably do is write some elisp similar to what rhythmicus posted: it wouldn't be too hard to write an emacs extension that would do a perltidy on the current buffer, and insert or update a standard comment with a timestamp for when perltidy was run. 20040810 Edit by ysth: move </i> out of <blockquote>	[reply] [d/l]