Re: perltidy tweaks

On 04/26/2018 12:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut  writes:
>> I prpose two tweaks for the perltidy configuration:
>> - The new perltidy version can avoid writing backup files, so we don't
>> need to explicitly delete them after.
> +1


+1

>
>> - Use option --nooutdent-long-quotes.  This is similar to a change we
>> made for pgindent in the C code a while ago.  See patch for the results.
> No strong opinion as to whether to do that or not, but if we do, I wonder
> if we shouldn't also select --nooutdent-long-comments.  I noticed a few
> places where it was doing that (ie moving comments left if they went past
> the right margin) and didn't particularly like it.


Yeah, not a fan of the outdenting, so +1 to both of these.

>
> What would be more per project style is to reflow overly-wide comments
> into multiple lines, but I don't see an option for that :-(
>
> 	


Right. Maybe we need a script that at least identifies them for us.

cheers

andrew

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