Re^2: Formatting Perl code with Emacs

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"If you have to run shell command from the text editor to format your code, why don't you run another one to save the file?.."

Perhaps a misunderstanding? But it is quite simple:

Mark the region that you want to format
Apply the described command (Shell command on region: perltidy)
Save your stuff

Alternatively you can run perltidy from the commandline. Then you must rename the resulting formatted file and reload the buffer (M-x revert-buffer).

IMHO applying the shell command (perltidy) on a region respectively running perltidy from within emacs is convinient - and the results look good.

Update:

The macro and the binding to F11:

(fset 'perltidy
   "\C-xh\C-[1\C-[|perltidy\C-m")

(global-set-key [f11] 'perltidy)
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Run it with F11 or M-x perltidy

Update2:

OK, on a Mac F11 isn't a good idea :-(


(global-set-key [f5] 'perltidy)
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Best regards, Karl

P.S.: BTW, i think, many stuff posted on PM is formatted with perltidy, from within emacs or vim. See also

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Re^3: Formatting Perl code with Emacs by LanX (Saint) on Nov 07, 2013 at 14:10 UTC
It's not that complicated, you can easily bind the whole process to a key! Either define and save a macro or search for ready-to-use elisp snippets. There are plenty... Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]
Re^3: Formatting Perl code with Emacs by isntvoid (Novice) on Nov 07, 2013 at 10:22 UTC
Thanks. Perltidy is quite good, but I don't use it in my coding practice, because I prefer to format my code manually with the editor commands at the same time as I type it. TMTOWTDI.	[reply]

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