Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers

On 04/17/2011 04:08 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> What makes you think this isn't possible to run pgindent? There are
>> no secret incantations.
>
> The first hit newbies find looking for info about pgident is
> http://blog.hagander.net/archives/185-pgindent-vs-dash.html which sure
> looks like secret incantations to me. The documentation
> src/tools/pgindent/README reads like a magic spell too:
>
> find . -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print | \
> egrep -v -f src/tools/pgindent/exclude_file_patterns | \
> xargs -n100 pgindent src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list

That's the incantation for indenting the whole of the source code. But
very few people want to do that. Most people just want to indent a
single file, for which the incantation is "pgindent path_to_typedefs
my_file.c". See in another message my suggestion for defaulting the
typedefs arg, so you'd just be able to say "pg_indent my_file.c".

cheers

andrew