Re: Why is perltidy using indent-columns instead of continuation-indentation when breaking up a long if-line?

If i were in your shoes i wouldn‘t waste my time with questions like this.

And BTW: Did you try to format the code by hand and then run perltidy on the buffer/file?

Big surprise! O.K. - sometimes...

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Re^2: Why is perltidy using indent-columns instead of continuation-indentation when breaking up a long if-line? by Tux (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2019 at 07:11 UTC
I can come up with many reasons why you want to put time and effort into this! For the purpose of the this discussion, let us assume I have taken over the module the OP wrote years ago, and for good reason, he/she put up for grabs (no more interest in Perl, no more access to required resources, left life, ...). Now, for obvious reasons, I do not like the style/layout of the code this module was (consistently) written in, and - also for this discussion - the module has thousands of lines of code. I think that code needs to be easy to read in order to be able to maintain it properly, so next to consistent indentation and styling, it needs to be beautiful and that is where perltidy drops in place. Whatever style the module's code was written in, I run perltidy with my preferences, and suddenly all the code looks beautiful, so I can understand it. Next step is to edit all the code by hand and make the last mis-formats match my own style. As no software is perfect, there will be parts that are not formatted according taste. By browsing/editing the codebase, I now get acquainted by the code's structure and main parts and I can start focusing on open issues and bugs. By having a .perltidyrc file that formats the code to as close as possible what you think is best (and we will not agree there), you will save yourself a lot of time later on. Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply]
Re^2: Why is perltidy using indent-columns instead of continuation-indentation when breaking up a long if-line? by torgny (Sexton) on Jan 08, 2019 at 11:48 UTC
> If i were in your shoes i wouldn‘t waste my time with questions like this. I am not sure what you mean when you say questions like this. Is my question not appropriate for perlmonks? > And BTW: Did you try to format the code by hand and then run perltidy on the buffer/file? Yes. I did and the result was that perltidy disagreed with me and increased my two spaces to four.	[reply]
Re^3: Why is perltidy using indent-columns instead of continuation-indentation when breaking up a long if-line? by haukex (Chancellor) on Jan 08, 2019 at 16:36 UTC
Is my question not appropriate for perlmonks? Your question is very appropriate for PerlMonks - the way I interpreted karlgoethebier's point was "don't worry too much about things that are too difficult to change" `;-)` Although I do think it's worth it to investigate a bit how difficult it is to change this behavior. Personally I agree with LanX, I tend to format my own code by hand or via the editor's built-in tools and to leave perltidy for cleaning up code I get from elsewhere. But if you want to run perltidy on everything that's fine too, although AFAIK not every bit of its behavior is configurable. Edit: Typos.	[reply] [d/l]