2 This is a partial "wish-list" of features to add and things to do. For
3 the latest list of bugs and feature requests at CPAN see:
5 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-Tidy
7 Improved Vertical Alignment
8 There are still many opportunities for improving vertical alignment.
11 A FAQ is needed to explain some of the more subtle formatting issues,
12 and to give examples of different styles.
14 The -formatter callback object documentation is incomplete.
17 The HTML writer does not colorize interpolated identifiers in here
18 documents or quoted strings. The tokenizer outputs interpolation
19 information for here docs; it still needs to be updated to do this for
20 multi-line quotes. Then code needs to be written to scan for and markup
23 Things which have been suggested but will not be done
24 Recursive file processing
25 A -r flag might be nice, but this is best handled by an exterior shell
28 Make perltidy support the syntax of module XXX
29 This generally won't be done unless the module is part of the core perl
30 distribution because it is such an open-ended problem. Compounding the
31 problem is the fact that perltidy often is invoked within an editor on
32 small snippets of code, so it must to work correctly without seeing any
33 particular 'use xxx' statement. Therefore, any syntax changes that
34 conflict with standard Perl syntax can't easily be handled.
36 However, an effort is being made to make perltidy generally more
37 tolerant of extensions to perl syntax. Also, the pre- and post-filter
38 capabilities of the Tidy.pm module may help.