Status of the Source Formatter plugin

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.09.08 20:51:35, Cedric Pasteur wrote:
> Hi,
> The biggest part of the work for the source formatter plugin has been done.
> Currently, only astyle and GNU indent are supported, but adding more is easy. 
> It just takes time to create the config dialog. The indent plugin cannot be 
> configured yet, I'm waiting for the port of koproperty (in koffice/) to qt4 
> because there 's lot of options and a normal dialog won't be very usable.
> 
> For all supported plugins, custom themes are supported. 
> It is possible to format all the files in a directory (or a complete project) 
> and the plugin will chose the backend corresponding to the mime type for each 
> file, and even add kate modelines if needed.
> 
> If you have any ideas of new features or if you find bugs, please tell me.
> 
> Right now, I plan to start woring on the documentation plugin. If there's 
> another plugin more 'critical' for the future 4.0 that needs some love, 
> please tell me.

Well, documentation plugin would be nice indeed. One other that
definitly needs porting is filecreate, but I currently have no idea how
to best do that, especially integrating it with the already existing
code to create new class stubs.

Andreas

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