Indenting code?

[Brad Wetmore]

Netbean's automatic formatting does a pretty good job with new code. 
However, I think the general advice is to not change existing code just 
because.  When you're dealing with multiple release families, it makes 
the merges much more difficult.

Brad



On 9/13/2012 6:18 AM, John Zavgren wrote:
> Greetings:
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> I have a simple question about how to enforce code styles for: java, c, and c++. I know there are style guides that legislate the indentation, "curly brace and parenthesis management", etc.
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> I'm looking for a simple automatic way to transform any source code file so that it's image is guaranteed to be "correct". No thinking required.
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> What I normally do is use an open source tool named "indent", e.g.,
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> indent -bap -bbb -bl -nce -l80 file1.cpp file2.h file3.c file4.java
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> And, I put an "indent" target in my make files.
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> Consequently whenever I make something, the very first step is to format the code, and I know that when I do a check in later on... I never have to think about whether or not the code conforms to a style guide... because the options I gave to "indent" implemented this guide. (You can do similar things with emacs too.)
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks!
> John Zavgren
> john.zavgren at oracle.com
>