Re: indent-ly

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:49:33PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
>
> Be careful: This version overwrites the original file without making a  
> backup ( infile.ly~ )first. Maybe I should add that in the next version.

Yes, that would be good.

What about a version that read from standard input and wrote to
standard input?  I'm thinking about the documentation -- we could
automatically format all lilypond input syntax.

The documentation _mostly_ follows our semi-defined style already,
but I'm sure that there's a handful of places where it doesn't.
It be nice if we could auto-format all 2143 portions of lilypond
input in the docs.  :)

>> Yes, scheme code should be formatted in the scheme way.
> I know very very little about scheme. Some example lilypond files with 
> much scheme code might help.

The snippets->advanced scheme might help here, but I'm not certain
if they're all formatted correctly.

The definitive guide[1] would be "whatever emacs does" -- if you
can install emacs and try its formatting on a few scheme files,
you could satisfy all your questions about this.  :)


[1]  I dislike installing 30 megs of programs just to have good
indentation, which is why I consider this python indentation
script such a great project.

>> One more item to consider: whitespace at the ends of lines should
>> be stripped.
>
> I thought I already did that ? I'll look in to it.

Sorry, I still haven't looked at the program; I'm just commenting
on the discussion.  If you already do this, great!

(BTW, this end-of-line whitespace-removal is a *huge* issue for
the docs and our code.  When the lilypond indenting script is
done, it would be fantastic if you could write a similar program
to help the documentation writers and programmers.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham