On 30 July 2013 01:41, Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:11:18 +0100, Joshua Landau <jos...@landau.ws> > wrote: > > On 30 July 2013 00:08, Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> I'm working on some shonky C code at the moment that inconsistent >>> indentation and very long lines. It is extremely annoying not to be >>> able to put the original code, my "translation" and sundry utilities >>> all side-by-side on the same screen (and it's not a particularly >>> small screen), and having to keep flipping between them slows me >>> down dramatically. Long lines have no effect on the speed of the >>> program, but they can have serious effects on the speed of the >>> programmer. >>> >> >> Then just wrap it. This is a very automatable thing for editors. There >> might even be a clever hard-wrap somewhere. I just tried pyformat -- that >> works wonders. >> > > I tried that at first, but it actually made matters worse. "Simple" > word-wrapping just broke the structural cues from indentation (which I'd > already had to instruct my editor to make at least somewhat consistent). I > couldn't just take in the code layout at a glance, I had to work at it. 1) pyformat's quite sane, maybe you should try that. It's a few minutes wasted at worst. (sudo pip install pyformat; pyformat <infile> [-i for inplace changes]) 2) How does your soft word-wrap work? I know some editors do it terribly, mine does it passably¹. I don't know any that do it truly semantically (although it's a feature worthy of implementation). 3) Is the code secret? Let's see a "difficult" snippet if not. ¹ It either indents to the same indentation as the line's start or an extra indent inwards, depending on context
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