Re: Ada95 Pretty-Printers

[Rolf Ebert <re@waporo.muc.de>]

>>>>> "JGV" == John G Volan <johnvolan@sprintmail.com> writes:

JGV> Are there any batch pretty-printers out there (commercial or free)
JGV> that can do syntax-level indenting while still respecting the
JGV> user's line-breaks? Or even better, are there any pretty-printers
JGV> that can actively reformat, but which are customizable, maybe using
JGV> syntax templates? (For instance, if one of our programmers forgets
JGV> to put a "then" on a separate line, we'd rather have a tool that
JGV> could automatically move it for him, rather than beat him up in a
JGV> walkthrough for something as trivial as code format.)

The answer to almost any question is Emacs. Emacs can do everything :-)

Look at the emacs-ada-mode package at cs.ny.edu:/pub/gnat.  In its
contrib directory there is a short file which uses Emacs in batch mode
for reindenting files.  The documentation explains the user options
which control indenting.  The current Emacs-reformatter never changes
newlines, though.  But you have the sources and can of course adapt it
to your needs.  I admit, it is very slow.

Try to do that with vi.


        Rolf
        ebert@waporo.muc.de