doublethom
Member
Hello,
My company is considering applying formatting via Beautifier to a whole 20+ y.o. git repository holding code for a large homegrown system.
From what I've seen it's possible to just script out a batch style file with "beaut <filepath>" instructions and run that from the command window inside the IDE.
If there is btw a better way to go about it, any advice is welcome.
So:
1) I test ran this and across a couple hundred files, saw some errors, altho when randomly opening one of the files the process seems to have crashed on, I am seeing the file itself have formatting applied properly (I have beautifier configured to apply upon open/close/compile/save atm) - any way to see what the errors are?
the error count is below 1% of the files so not a problem to revisit these few exceptions manually, just curious what happened
2) We're using version 15 of the IDE atm, and are considering upgrading to 16 - have there (hopefully) been any feature extensions in scope of Beautifier itself (more options to custom format the code etc) ?
Mostly we'd be hoping for a more configurable indenting system for scope (for example there are methods holding other method declarations in them at times - it would thus boil down to quite a significant indenting here/there, while we do want to maintain the generic "2 spaces" rule in most cases)
Alternatively, as this was hinted by someone here but I am unsure if true - is it possible to achieve a bit more in this scope via editing the ruleset .br file manually rather than just picking options via UI?
Regards,
DT
My company is considering applying formatting via Beautifier to a whole 20+ y.o. git repository holding code for a large homegrown system.
From what I've seen it's possible to just script out a batch style file with "beaut <filepath>" instructions and run that from the command window inside the IDE.
If there is btw a better way to go about it, any advice is welcome.
So:
1) I test ran this and across a couple hundred files, saw some errors, altho when randomly opening one of the files the process seems to have crashed on, I am seeing the file itself have formatting applied properly (I have beautifier configured to apply upon open/close/compile/save atm) - any way to see what the errors are?
the error count is below 1% of the files so not a problem to revisit these few exceptions manually, just curious what happened
2) We're using version 15 of the IDE atm, and are considering upgrading to 16 - have there (hopefully) been any feature extensions in scope of Beautifier itself (more options to custom format the code etc) ?
Mostly we'd be hoping for a more configurable indenting system for scope (for example there are methods holding other method declarations in them at times - it would thus boil down to quite a significant indenting here/there, while we do want to maintain the generic "2 spaces" rule in most cases)
Alternatively, as this was hinted by someone here but I am unsure if true - is it possible to achieve a bit more in this scope via editing the ruleset .br file manually rather than just picking options via UI?
Regards,
DT
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