Perltidy TODO List
- This is a partial "wish-list" of features to add and things to do. All
- of these are of interest, but there is no particular schedule for
- implementing them.
+ This is a partial "wish-list" of features to add and things to do. For
+ the latest list of bugs and feature requests at CPAN see:
+
+ https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-Tidy
Improved Vertical Alignment
- There are many opportunities for improving vertical alignment.
+ There are still many opportunities for improving vertical alignment.
Documentation
A FAQ is needed to explain some of the more subtle formatting issues,
multi-line quotes. Then code needs to be written to scan for and markup
identifiers.
- Automatic style detection
- It would be nice to write a program to read a sample of perl code and
- write an approximate .perltidyrc file for that style.
-
Things which have been suggested but will not be done
Recursive file processing
- A -r flag might be nice, but this is probably best handled by an
- exterior shell script.
+ A -r flag might be nice, but this is best handled by an exterior shell
+ script.
+
+ Make perltidy support the syntax of module XXX
+ This generally won't be done unless the module is part of the core perl
+ distribution because it is such an open-ended problem. Compounding the
+ problem is the fact that perltidy often is invoked within an editor on
+ small snippets of code, so it must to work correctly without seeing any
+ particular 'use xxx' statement. Therefore, any syntax changes that
+ conflict with standard Perl syntax can't easily be handled.
+
+ However, an effort is being made to make perltidy generally more
+ tolerant of extensions to perl syntax. Also, the pre- and post-filter
+ capabilities of the Tidy.pm module may help.
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