<div dir="ltr">Ah so I tried erl_tidy and like Tristan says over at <a href="https://github.com/tsloughter/erl_tidy">https://github.com/tsloughter/erl_tidy</a> :<div>Oh boy my specs!</div><div><br></div><div>erlang-mode does not rewrite code in the same sense as erl_tidy.</div><div>Instead it behaves as if one was pressing the TAB key on each line of a file, thus only changing space to the left of the current line.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though I like erl_tidy's "unclobbering or commas" (it turns A,B,C into A, B, C)</div><div>I very much prefer erlang-mode's "preservation of \ns": it only changes the indentation characters.</div><div><br></div><div>How do you handle the cases where erl_tidy spews out AST code instead of compilable code?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>@Max 4 spaces, although that is configurable somewhere.</div><div>This feature needs confirmation though: that's 4. in <a href="https://github.com/fenollp/erlang-formatter#to-do">https://github.com/fenollp/erlang-formatter#to-do</a></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>-- </div><div>Pierre Fenoll</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2016 at 14:06, Mark Bucciarelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mkbucc@gmail.com" target="_blank">mkbucc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I had the same itch!<br><div><br></div><div> * <a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2016-April/088975.html" target="_blank">http://erlang.org/pipermail/<wbr>erlang-questions/2016-April/<wbr>088975.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> * <a href="https://github.com/mbucc/erlfmt" target="_blank">https://github.com/mbucc/<wbr>erlfmt</a> (which grew out of that thread)</div><div><br></div><div>I use it whenever I am coding with Erlang (and it also helped expose an erl_tidy bug [1] :).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0969ecad9e2978bacb7b27f663cd16aa5ea6c460" target="_blank">https://github.com/erlang/<wbr>otp/commit/<wbr>0969ecad9e2978bacb7b27f663cd16<wbr>aa5ea6c460</a></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Pierre Fenoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pierrefenoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">pierrefenoll@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">We had too many discussions about style on a lengthy open source Erlang project (2600Hz's Kazoo).<div><br></div><div>We have now as part of our CI checks a style-ensuring tool that formats .erl .hrl .app.src .escript<br><div>in the "standard format" of Emacs' erlang-mode.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/fenollp/erlang-formatter" target="_blank">https://github.com/fenollp/erl<wbr>ang-formatter</a> is now in version 1.<br></div><div>We use it daily which helps us redirect our shouting at CircleCI instead of colleagues.</div><div><br></div><div>And shouting is certainly great to redirect</div><div><a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/076908.html" target="_blank">http://erlang.org/pipermail/er<wbr>lang-questions/2014-February/<wbr>076908.html</a><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>This implementation uses emacs > 23 under the hood.</div><div>* It was the fastest & shortest way to implement</div><div>* erlang-mode is the closest thing to a standard there is for formatting</div><div>Some other tools / implementations are listed in the project's README.</div><div><br></div><div>So far this project helped uncover 4 bugs in erlang-mode which I minified & reported.</div><div><br></div><div>I share this in hope that this can help people & tame some shouting.</div><div>A non-Emacs implementation would be amazing (probably faster, more portable).</div><div>With your help this project can turn into a test bed for such an adventure!</div><div><br></div><div>A rebar3 fmt plugin is in the works.</div><div><br></div><div>Please tell me what you think but I don't care about your religious beliefs :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>-- </div><div>Pierre Fenoll</div></font></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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