From:	"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Suggestions on C beautifier/prettyprinter ???
Date:	Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:06:54 -0500
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Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:

> Has anyone any suggestions on a C beautifier/prettyprinter? I'm working on a
> project with a group of people who are using Visual C (I prefer djgpp) and
> VC has the annoying habit of putting tabs all over the place. The project is
> fairly large for correcting the problem by hand every time we exchange code
> and well, I'm sure you understand how it feels like :)
>
> I am already using "expand" to kill the tabs and recently spent some time
> unsuccessfully trying to get Erltools (claimed to be a C/C++ beautifier/
> prettyprinter) to compile under djgpp. I've seen mention of "cb" but don't
> know where to find it.
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!

    Try emacs or XEmacs.  They can nicely reformat C/C++ to any reasonable code
indentation style (with or without tabs).

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)

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