Status of the Source Formatter plugin

[Hamish Rodda]

Hi,

On Friday 12 September 2008 04:51:35 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.

Thanks for your work :)

> 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.

I will be needing at some point a way to format generated and refactored code 
(so just parts of a file) or at least a way to get the user's formatting 
preferences so that new code can conform to them. Do you have an api for 
either of these?

> 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.

Sounds good.

Cheers,
Hamish.