On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Hong Xu <dev@hong.me> wrote:

On Jul 18, 2012, at 10:32, Jacob Strohm <jacobstrohm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Does Geany have any kind of automatic code formatter, either in the core or as a plugin? Looking through the plugins project/website, I didn't see anything like it, and if not I think I'd enjoy working on it in my free time, I just wanted to double check before investing a bunch of time.
>

This may solve your issue partially:

http://editorconfig.org

Currently you can only deal with indentation using it.

I've been unable to get Geany to recognize your plugin using a geany version pulled from git a couple days ago (probably some silly mistake I'm making), but regardless I was thinking of something more fully featured (and not needing to install a separate library is preferable in my eyes). I may add an option to import/export the file format though.

Hi,

I'd personally be very interested in using a plugin that can format the code precisely automatically. IIRC VisualStudio does this very well but is not flexible as to code style (or I didn't find the preferences). I suspect it would be quite difficult to write a good one that is at the same time accurate, flexible and supports multiple non-similar languages (C-style vs Python, for example).

Way to put the pressure on :). I haven't used Visual Studio's, but I will check it out, along with Eclipse's version. Also, since I only really have experience with C-style languages, it will (initally at least) be focused on that. Suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks,
Jacob Strohm