Re: [Koha-devel] what does everyone use to indent/beautify their TMPL files?

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hey Mason,

Thanks for posting this. I've not had a chance to play with tidy, but
I'll give it a shot next time I write something.

I wonder if you'd be willing to add some information about how to use it
to our Koha Coding Guidelines draft:

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:codingguidelines

Cheers,

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:04:41PM +1300, Mason James wrote:
> hiya Everyone,
> 
> ive been thinking (for a while) about a way to standardize the way we  
> format/indent
>  *.tmpl files in koha
> 
> because...
> some of the *.tmpl files i create look awful, and they are just too  
> complex for me to work out a consistant way of formatting them.
> 
> ive been playing a little with 'tidy' recently  
> (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
> and ive got 'tidy' to parse and indent a tmpl file without too much  
> moaning,
> using a config .rc file like this...
> 
> $ cat .tidyrc
> new-blocklevel-tags: tmpl_loop tmpl_if tmpl_else tmpl_unless
> new-inline-tags: tmpl_var tmpl_include
> indent: auto
> indent-spaces: 1
> vertical-space: n
> wrap: 0
> 
> then, run tidy like so...
> 
> $ tidy -c .tidyrc test.tmpl
> 
> --
> 
> so, the question is......
> 
> - what tools does everyone use for their own *.tmpl  
> indenting/formatting/beautifying?
> - are there better ones than 'tidy'?
> - is it a good idea for us to find a tool that formats our tmpl files in a  
> standard way?
> 
> any ideas folks?
> 
> cheers, Mason.
> 
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