Formatting Your C++ Code the Easy Way
Everyone has his own coding style and dislikes everyone else’s. When you have to work with code written by other people, there’s a ton of it, and their coding style differs from yours in many ways, you have to do something.
As for Psi project, we in fact have some set of code style guidelines. But still sometimes we occasionally are looking at something that’s noticeably differs from our sense of perfection.
That’s where code beautifiers come into play.
Enter Artistic Style. Small, neat and cross-platform C, C++, C# and Java code beautifier.
Installing Artistic Style
UPDATE: As of astyle-1.20 release, building it on Mac OS X is simple with provided build/Makefile.
-headerpad_max_install_names You could either modify your Makefile with this knowledge, or could use a tool to produce the Makefile automatically:qmake -project && qmake. After that, it’s just a singlemakeaway from getting your hands on the binary. I have packaged both resultingMakefileandastyle.proin one package.
Using Artistic Style
Pipe a file to the executable, or specify file name as the argument: result is the same — code is reformatted, and is either written to the stdout, or to the file. And it also dumps an advertisement to the stderr, so don't forget to 2> /dev/null.
The following command line gives the result most closely resembling what we describe in the Psi Code Style Guidelines:
astyle --mode=c --indent=tab=4 --brackets=linux --brackets=break-closing --min-conditional-indent=0 --pad=oper --unpad=paren && echo ""
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