[lug] Source Code Pretty-fying

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:50:33PM -0600, Matt Thompson wrote:
> OK, folks, this is a dumb question, but apparently I can't get Google to 
> look for what I'm asking for.
> 
> I have some C code that has been hacked on by about 4-5 people. 
> Apparently, each person had their own idea on what "tab" should do.  I 
> say 3 spaces, another said 2 spaces, another said the hard \t.  So, when 
> I open this code in VIM, I get code that is wacky-indented.  You know, 
> some lines inside like 3 if's are underindented, etc.
> 
> Thus, I figured there has to be some utility that will resolve this and 
> impose regular indenting.  Heck, there might be something for VIM, but I 
> couldn't see it.  Any help?

You look for something better than 'indent' ? I usually just do the reformatting
from within emacs (M-x indent-region) but every once in a while i do use 'indent'.
The only problem i had so far was the enormous amount of configuration options ...
allmost as many switches as 'ls' ;-)

 Ralf Mattes

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