clang-format is a source code formatting tool developed by Google which can do automatic whitespace cleanup, vertical alignment and line breaking changes to C++ code. See this video [1] for a recent presentation about the tool in the LLVM Developers Conference (the slides are here [2]). And it currently integrates with vim, emacs and TextMate.
I just gave it a shot in vim and the results look very good. For some things it can analyze the source code in the current file to derive what the current style used in the file is in order to improve style consistency per file. It also currently support three coding styles, Google, LLVM and Chromium. I submitted a patch to add a Mozilla coding style [3] and once that's committed, you can try it out. It would be great if people can try it out and see if they like the results, and start using it to improve our code. Also, we can adjust it to support more coding style options if needed in order to improve handling of the Mozilla specific idioms. [1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/videos/jasper-hires.mov [2] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/jasper-slides.pdf [3] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130429/079226.html Cheers, -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
