PSA: indent your code, DAMMIT.

[Jessica]

I just went through a 700 line tpl line by line adding indentation. It had none. Gee, I wonder why the previous developer couldn't find his bugs?  :'( :'(

It took me 45 minutes to figure out where the loop was that he was messing up. So yes, I'm grumpy today.

[xyph]

Netbeans - Get parser for tpl language - > Right click - > Format code

 

 

Agreed though. If someone posts non-indented code here, I usually don't even bother.

[Jessica]

I know there's probably more than one tool that can do it for me, but by the time I was a quarter done I decided it would take longer to install those tools. For next time though definitely.

[Maq]

I know there's probably more than one tool that can do it for me, but by the time I was a quarter done I decided it would take longer to install those tools. For next time though definitely.

Any decent IDE should come with this feature.  You can even customize how the format looks.

 

Anyway, that's one of my pet peeves....

[Jessica]

I'm using jEdit, we tried setting up Eclipse and Netbeans in the past and could not get either to work with connecting to the repositories. I personally don't like a huge IDE with a ton of features, I'm used to Textpad. I like syntax highlighting and auto indent -  meaning when I type if(){ it indents the next line. But I've never seen one that can take a non-indented file and fix it. I checked jEdit and can't find it, even as a plugin.

[Pikachu2000]

It's far from a 'light' IDE, but Zend Studio will indent non-indented code quite well. I use that feature all the time.

[xyph]

It's far from a 'light' IDE, but Zend Studio will indent non-indented code quite well. I use that feature all the time.

 

It SHOULD for $300!!

[Christian F.]

Oh, I know what you're talking about, Jesi. Trust me. Been cursing people who didn't indent properly for a long time, and when I Zend Studio implemented the format code function it was as if was sent from heaven!

Nowadays, I just hit CTRL + SHIFT + F and grin.

[Adam]

I'm using jEdit, we tried setting up Eclipse and Netbeans in the past and could not get either to work with connecting to the repositories. I personally don't like a huge IDE with a ton of features, I'm used to Textpad. I like syntax highlighting and auto indent -  meaning when I type if(){ it indents the next line. But I've never seen one that can take a non-indented file and fix it. I checked jEdit and can't find it, even as a plugin.

 

In vim, just select the text and press "="

[salathe]

Visual Studio has Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D to format the document.  .NET, it's the future!

[Jessica]

I'm using jEdit, we tried setting up Eclipse and Netbeans in the past and could not get either to work with connecting to the repositories. I personally don't like a huge IDE with a ton of features, I'm used to Textpad. I like syntax highlighting and auto indent -  meaning when I type if(){ it indents the next line. But I've never seen one that can take a non-indented file and fix it. I checked jEdit and can't find it, even as a plugin.

 

In vim, just select the text and press "="

 

Yeaaaaah. There's a reason I'm the only person on my team using Windows. I just can't adapt to vim. *hangs head*

[teng84]

I'm using jEdit, we tried setting up Eclipse and Netbeans in the past and could not get either to work with connecting to the repositories. I personally don't like a huge IDE with a ton of features, I'm used to Textpad. I like syntax highlighting and auto indent -  meaning when I type if(){ it indents the next line. But I've never seen one that can take a non-indented file and fix it. I checked jEdit and can't find it, even as a plugin.

 

In vim, just select the text and press "="

 

Yeaaaaah. There's a reason I'm the only person on my team using Windows. I just can't adapt to vim. *hangs head*

the problem when using vim and windows editor is the tab vs spaces if you forgot to edit the settings of your windows editor to 4 space it will be a night mare of vim user lol

[The Little Guy]

Here is what I look for in an editor:

 

- Auto Indent

- Auto Close: Brace, Bracket, Quote, Apostrophe, Parenthesis

 

Netbeans formats fairly well not 100% perfect I noticed though

 

Before formatting:

<?php
class C{
private $v1 = "";
public $superman = array();
protected $batman = 1234;
public function __construct($thing){
$this->thing = $thing;
$cat = "Dog";
echo $cat;
}
public function something(){
$longvariablecounter = 0;
for($i=0;$i<10;$i++){
echo "Hello";
$longvariablecounter++;
}
}
}


$frenchFry = "10";
$bans = "123";
$c = new C($frenchFry);
$c->something();
echo "<br />";
echo $bans;
?>

 

After formatting:

<?php
class C{
    private $v1       = "";
    public $superman = array();
    protected $batman = 1234;
    public function __construct($thing){
        $this->thing = $thing;
        $cat = "Dog";
        echo $cat;
    }
    public function something(){
        $longvariablecounter = 0;
        for($i                   = 0; $i < 10; $i++){
            echo "Hello";
            $longvariablecounter++;
        }
    }
}
$frenchFry = "10";
$bans      = "123";
$c         = new C($frenchFry);
$c->something();
echo "<br />";
echo $bans;
?>

 

As you can see the alignment on variables in the for loop, are strange, and the equal signs don't line up that well some variables such as ones with arrays.

 

But it does do everything else quite nice!

[Mahngiel]

Here is what I look for in an editor:

 

- Auto Indent

- Auto Close: Brace, Bracket, Quote, Apostrophe, Parenthesis

 

- A good editor permits back-tabbing, too.

- Auto closing is a nightmare if the editor doesn't allow you to 'insert' through it.  Nothing is worse than auto closing and you have to cursor through containing punctuation!