Integrated code formatter

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:33:02PM +0000, Johan via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 17 January 2022 at 22:19:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > 
> > (Yes I know some code formatters have tags to suppress automatic
> > formatting, etc., but seriously, why do I need to explicitly ask the
> > computer not to do something I didn't want it to do in the first
> > place?)
> 
> The way I use clang-format (default with the sublime plugin by llvm)
> is that it only reformats your selection or current line, and
> sometimes one extra line of context around it.

Ah, well that would be nice indeed. ;-)


> clang-format is indeed something I very much miss for D. Precisely
> this "only reformat this small fragment" functionality is extremely
> time saving.

Does dfmt not do this?


> Also in code review, you can simply comment "clang-format" and all is
> clear.  No more discussions about formatting :)
[...]

Point.  I remember when I used to be more active on the Phobos PR queue,
a sad amount of time was spent over formatting issues (the right amount
ought to be zero. :-D).


T

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