Re: indent-ly

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote:

> > - it would be nice to have an option to replace the file directly instead of
> > having to copy/paste the resulting file
>
> Definitely!

Done in latest version. Use -m (--modify)
Be careful: This version overwrites the original file without making a 
backup ( infile.ly~ )first. Maybe I should add that in the next 
version.

> > - scheme code is not handled (or indented uniformly)
>
> Yes, scheme code should be formatted in the scheme way.
I know very very little about scheme. Some example lilypond files 
with much scheme code might help.

> > - if within brackets there are tabs after the code and before the
> > end-bracket they are replaced by a bunch of blanks
>
> Hmm, I'm not certain how often this would come into play.
I use tabs sometimes for indenting lines, but I haven't seen anyone using 
tabs in the middle of a line of lilypond code

> > - in my programming style i prefer to have the endbracket aligned with the
> > code above - maybe with an additional option this could be solved!?

> I'd argue against this -- the point of a unified style /
> indentation scheme is that it's *standard*.
...
> I don't think we should have many options at all.
I agree
B
> One more item to consider: whitespace at the ends of lines should
> be stripped.

I thought I already did that ? I'll look in to it.

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Martin Tarenskeen