You want a sub-tidy which formats embedded strings and here-docs?

I'm not aware of any possibility in perltidy for hooking an external parser for languages like SQL.

And how is tidy supposed to know what kind of sub-language you are using? Heuristics?

My best practice for embedded code is to manually change the mode in emacs and start a reformatting process on selected regions. When needed I even put this in a macro assigned to a key.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by LanX
in thread Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by walkingthecow

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