3 - Allow configuration file to be 'perltidy.ini' for Windows systems.
4 i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\User\perltidy.ini
5 and added documentation for setting configuation file under Windows in man
6 page. Thanks to Stuart Clark.
8 - Corrected problem of unwanted semicolons in hash ref within given/when code.
11 - added new flag -cscb or --closing-side-comments-balanced
12 When using closing-side-comments, and the closing-side-comment-maximum-text
13 limit is exceeded, then the comment text must be truncated. Previous
14 versions of perltidy terminate with three dots, and this can still be
19 } ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ...
21 However this causes a problem with older editors which cannot recognize
22 comments or are not configured to doso because they cannot "bounce" around in
23 the text correctly. The B<-cscb> flag tries to help them by
24 appending appropriate terminal balancing structure:
28 } ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ... })
30 Since there is much to be gained and little to be lost by doing this,
31 the default is B<-cscb>. Use B<-ncscb> if you do not want this.
33 Thanks to Daniel Becker for suggesting this option.
35 - After an isolated closing eval block the continuation indentation will be
36 removed so that the braces line up more like other blocks. Thanks to Yves Orton.
55 -A new flag -asbl (or --opening-anonymous-sub-brace-on-new-line) has
56 been added to put the opening brace of anonymous sub's on a new line,
57 as in the following snippet:
65 This was not possible before because the -sbl flag only applies to named
66 subs. Thanks to Benjamin Krupp.
68 -Fix tokenization bug with the following snippet
69 print 'hi' if { x => 1, }->{x};
70 which resulted in a semicolon being added after the comma. The workaround
71 was to use -nasc, but this is no longer necessary. Thanks to Brian Duggan.
73 -Fixed problem in which an incorrect error message could be triggered
74 by the (unusual) combination of parameters -lp -i=0 -l=2 -ci=0 for
75 example. Thanks to Richard Jelinek.
77 -A new flag --keep-old-blank-lines=n has been added to
78 give more control over the treatment of old blank lines in
79 a script. The manual has been revised to discuss the new
80 flag and clarify the treatment of old blank lines. Thanks
84 -Improved support for perl 5.10: New quote modifier 'p', new block type UNITCHECK,
85 new keyword break, improved formatting of given/when.
87 -Corrected tokenization bug of something like $var{-q}.
89 -Numerous minor formatting improvements.
91 -Corrected list of operators controlled by -baao -bbao to include
92 . : ? && || and or err xor
94 -Corrected very minor error in log file involving incorrect comment
95 regarding need for upper case of labels.
97 -Fixed problem where perltidy could run for a very long time
98 when given certain non-perl text files.
100 -Line breaks in un-parenthesized lists now try to follow
101 line breaks in the input file rather than trying to fill
102 lines. This usually works better, but if this causes
103 trouble you can use -iob to ignore any old line breaks.
104 Example for the following input snippet:
107 "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n",
108 "\t", $have, " is ", text_unit($hu), "\n",
109 "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",
113 print "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n", "\t", $have, " is ",
114 text_unit($hu), "\n", "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",;
117 print "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n",
118 "\t", $have, " is ", text_unit($hu), "\n",
119 "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",
123 -Added -fpsc option (--fixed-position-side-comment). Thanks to Ueli Hugenschmidt.
124 For example -fpsc=40 tells perltidy to put side comments in column 40
127 -Added -bbao and -baao options (--break-before-all-operators and
128 --break-after-all-operators) to simplify command lines and configuration
129 files. These define an initial preference for breaking at operators which can
130 be modified with -wba and -wbb flags. For example to break before all operators
131 except an = one could use --bbao -wba='=' rather than listing every
132 single perl operator (except =) on a -wbb flag.
134 -Added -kis option (--keep-interior-semicolons). Use the B<-kis> flag
135 to prevent breaking at a semicolon if there was no break there in the
136 input file. To illustrate, consider the following input lines:
138 dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
139 dbmclose(%expanded); undef %expanded;
140 dbmclose(%global); undef %global;
142 Normally these would be broken into six lines, but
145 dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
146 dbmclose(%expanded); undef %expanded;
147 dbmclose(%global); undef %global;
149 -Improved formatting of complex ternary statements, with indentation
150 of nested statements.
152 return defined( $cw->{Selected} )
154 ? @{ $cw->{Selected} }
159 return defined( $cw->{Selected} )
161 ? @{ $cw->{Selected} }
165 -Text following un-parenthesized if/unless/while/until statements get a
166 full level of indentation. Suggested by Jeff Armstorng and others.
168 return $ship->chargeWeapons("phaser-canon")
169 if $encounter->description eq 'klingon'
170 and $ship->firepower >= $encounter->firepower
171 and $location->status ne 'neutral';
173 return $ship->chargeWeapons("phaser-canon")
174 if $encounter->description eq 'klingon'
175 and $ship->firepower >= $encounter->firepower
176 and $location->status ne 'neutral';
179 -Fixed bug where #line directives were being indented. Thanks to
183 -Fixed problem where an extra blank line was added after an =cut when either
184 (a) the =cut started (not stopped) a POD section, or (b) -mbl > 1.
185 Thanks to J. Robert Ray and Bill Moseley.
188 -ole (--output-line-ending) and -ple (--preserve-line-endings) should
189 now work on all systems rather than just unix systems. Thanks to Dan
192 -Fixed problem of a warning issued for multiple subs for BEGIN subs
193 and other control subs. Thanks to Heiko Eissfeldt.
195 -Fixed problem where no space was introduced between a keyword or
196 bareword and a colon, such as:
198 ( ref($result) eq 'HASH' && !%$result ) ? undef: $result;
202 -Added a utility program 'break_long_quotes.pl' to the examples directory of
203 the distribution. It breaks long quoted strings into a chain of concatenated
204 sub strings no longer than a selected length. Suggested by Michael Renner as
205 a perltidy feature but was judged to be best done in a separate program.
207 -Updated docs to remove extra < and >= from list of tokens
208 after which breaks are made by default. Thanks to Bob Kleemann.
210 -Removed improper uses of $_ to avoid conflicts with external calls, giving
211 error message similar to:
212 Modification of a read-only value attempted at
213 /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 6907.
214 Thanks to Michael Renner.
216 -Fixed problem when errorfile was not a plain filename or filehandle
217 in a call to Tidy.pm. The call
218 perltidy(source => \$input, destination => \$output, errorfile => \$err);
219 gave the following error message:
220 Not a GLOB reference at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 3827.
221 Thanks to Michael Renner and Phillipe Bruhat.
223 -Fixed problem where -sot would not stack an opening token followed by
224 a side comment. Thanks to Jens Schicke.
226 -improved breakpoints in complex math and other long statements. Example:
229 log($n) + 0.577215664901532 + ( 1 / ( 2 * $n ) ) -
230 ( 1 / ( 12 * ( $n**2 ) ) ) + ( 1 / ( 120 * ( $n**4 ) ) );
233 log($n) + 0.577215664901532 +
235 ( 1 / ( 12 * ( $n**2 ) ) ) +
236 ( 1 / ( 120 * ( $n**4 ) ) );
238 -more robust vertical alignment of complex terminal else blocks and ternary
242 -Eliminated bug where a here-doc invoked through an 'e' modifier on a pattern
243 replacement text was not recognized. The tokenizer now recursively scans
244 replacement text (but does not reformat it).
246 -improved vertical alignment of terminal else blocks and ternary statements.
247 Thanks to Chris for the suggestion.
250 if ( IsBitmap() ) { return GetBitmap(); }
251 elsif ( IsFiles() ) { return GetFiles(); }
252 else { return GetText(); }
255 if ( IsBitmap() ) { return GetBitmap(); }
256 elsif ( IsFiles() ) { return GetFiles(); }
257 else { return GetText(); }
262 : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
263 : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
269 : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
270 : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
273 -improved indentation of try/catch blocks and other externally defined
274 functions accepting a block argument. Thanks to jae.
276 -Added support for Perl 5.10 features say and smartmatch.
278 -Added flag -pbp (--perl-best-practices) as an abbreviation for parameters
279 suggested in Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices". -pbp is the same as:
281 -l=78 -i=4 -ci=4 -st -se -vt=2 -cti=0 -pt=1 -bt=1 -sbt=1 -bbt=1 -nsfs -nolq
282 -wbb="% + - * / x != == >= <= =~ !~ < > | & >= < =
283 **= += *= &= <<= &&= -= /= |= >>= ||= .= %= ^= x="
285 Please note that the -st here restricts input to standard input; use
286 -nst if necessary to override.
288 -Eliminated some needless breaks at equals signs in -lp indentation.
292 Math::Complex->make(LEFT + $x * (RIGHT - LEFT) / SIZE,
293 TOP + $y * (BOTTOM - TOP) / SIZE);
295 $c = Math::Complex->make(LEFT + $x * (RIGHT - LEFT) / SIZE,
296 TOP + $y * (BOTTOM - TOP) / SIZE);
298 A break at an equals is sometimes useful for preventing complex statements
299 from hitting the line length limit. The decision to do this was
300 over-eager in some cases and has been improved. Thanks to Royce Reece.
302 -qw quotes contained in braces, square brackets, and parens are being
303 treated more like those containers as far as stacking of tokens. Also
304 stack of closing tokens ending ');' will outdent to where the ');' would
305 have outdented if the closing stack is matched with a similar opening stack.
307 OLD: perltidy -soc -sct
308 __PACKAGE__->load_components(
314 NEW: perltidy -soc -sct
315 __PACKAGE__->load_components( qw(
319 Thanks to Aran Deltac
321 -Eliminated some undesirable or marginally desirable vertical alignments.
322 These include terminal colons, opening braces, and equals, and particularly
323 when just two lines would be aligned.
326 my $accurate_timestamps = $Stamps{lnk};
330 my $accurate_timestamps = $Stamps{lnk};
333 -Corrected a problem with -mangle in which a space would be removed
334 between a keyword and variable beginning with ::.
337 -Attribute argument lists are now correctly treated as quoted strings
338 and not formatted. This is the most important update in this version.
339 Thanks to Borris Zentner, Greg Ferguson, Steve Kirkup.
341 -Updated to recognize the defined or operator, //, to be released in Perl 10.
342 Thanks to Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni.
344 -A useful utility perltidyrc_dump.pl is included in the examples section. It
345 will read any perltidyrc file and write it back out in a standard format
346 (though comments are lost).
348 -Added option to have perltidy read and return a hash with the contents of a
349 perltidyrc file. This may be used by Leif Eriksen's tidyview code. This
350 feature is used by the demonstration program 'perltidyrc_dump.pl' in the
353 -Improved error checking in perltidyrc files. Unknown bare words were not
356 -The --dump-options parameter now dumps parameters in the format required by a
359 -V-Strings with underscores are now recognized.
360 For example: $v = v1.2_3;
362 -cti=3 option added which gives one extra indentation level to closing
363 tokens always. This provides more predictable closing token placement
364 than cti=2. If you are using cti=2 you might want to try cti=3.
366 -To identify all left-adjusted comments as static block comments, use C<-sbcp='^#'>.
368 -New parameters -fs, -fsb, -fse added to allow sections of code between #<<<
369 and #>>> to be passed through verbatim. This is enabled by default and turned
370 off by -nfs. Flags -fsb and -fse allow other beginning and ending markers.
371 Thanks to Wolfgang Werner and Marion Berryman for suggesting this.
373 -added flag -skp to put a space between all Perl keywords and following paren.
374 The default is to only do this for certain keywords. Suggested by
377 -added flag -sfp to put a space between a function name and following paren.
378 The default is not to do this. Suggested by H.Merijn Brand.
380 -Added patch to avoid breaking GetOpt::Long::Configure set by calling program.
381 Thanks to Philippe Bruhat.
383 -An error was fixed in which certain parameters in a .perltidyrc file given
384 without the equals sign were not recognized. That is,
385 '--brace-tightness 0' gave an error but '--brace-tightness=0' worked
386 ok. Thanks to Zac Hansen.
388 -An error preventing the -nwrs flag from working was corrected. Thanks to
391 -Corrected some alignment problems with entab option.
393 -A bug with the combination of -lp and -extrude was fixed (though this
394 combination doesn't really make sense). The bug was that a line with
395 a single zero would be dropped. Thanks to Cameron Hayne.
397 -Updated Windows detection code to avoid an undefined variable.
398 Thanks to Joe Yates and Russ Jones.
400 -Improved formatting for short trailing statements following a closing paren.
401 Thanks to Joe Matarazzo.
403 -The handling of the -icb (indent closing block braces) flag has been changed
404 slightly to provide more consistent and predictable formatting of complex
405 structures. Instead of giving a closing block brace the indentation of the
406 previous line, it is now given one extra indentation level. The two methods
407 give the same result if the previous line was a complete statement, as in this
416 The change also fixes a problem with empty blocks such as:
426 -A problem with -icb was fixed in which a closing brace was misplaced when
427 it followed a quote which spanned multiple lines.
429 -Some improved breakpoints for -wba='&& || and or'
431 -Fixed problem with misaligned cuddled else in complex statements
432 when the -bar flag was also used. Thanks to Alex and Royce Reese.
434 -Corrected documentation to show that --outdent-long-comments is the default.
437 -New flag -otr (opening-token-right) is similar to -bar (braces-always-right)
438 but applies to non-structural opening tokens.
440 -new flags -sot (stack-opening-token), -sct (stack-closing-token).
444 -The default has been changed to not do syntax checking with perl.
445 Use -syn if you want it. Perltidy is very robust now, and the -syn
446 flag now causes more problems than it's worth because of BEGIN blocks
447 (which get executed with perl -c). For example, perltidy will never
448 return when trying to beautify this code if -syn is used:
450 BEGIN { 1 while { }; }
452 Although this is an obvious error, perltidy is often run on untested
453 code which is more likely to have this sort of problem. A more subtle
456 BEGIN { use FindBin; }
458 which may hang on some systems using -syn if a shared file system is
461 -Changed style -gnu to use -cti=1 instead of -cti=2 (see next item).
462 In most cases it looks better. To recover the previous format, use
465 -Added flags -cti=n for finer control of closing token indentation.
466 -cti = 0 no extra indentation (default; same as -nicp)
467 -cti = 1 enough indentation so that the closing token
468 aligns with its opening token.
469 -cti = 2 one extra indentation level if the line has the form
470 ); ]; or }; (same as -icp).
472 The new option -cti=1 works well with -lp:
476 # perltidy -lp -cti=1
478 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
479 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
482 # perltidy -lp -cti=2
484 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
485 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
487 This is backwards compatible with -icp. See revised manual for
488 details. Suggested by Mike Pennington.
490 -Added flag '--preserve-line-endings' or '-ple' to cause the output
491 line ending to be the same as in the input file, for unix, dos,
492 or mac line endings. Only works under unix. Suggested by
495 -Added flag '--output-line-ending=s' or '-ole=s' where s=dos or win,
496 unix, or mac. Only works under unix.
498 -Files with Mac line endings should now be handled properly under unix
499 and dos without being passed through a converter.
501 -You may now include 'and', 'or', and 'xor' in the list following
502 '--want-break-after' to get line breaks after those keywords rather than
503 before them. Suggested by Rainer Hochschild.
505 -Corrected problem with command line option for -vtc=n and -vt=n. The
506 equals sign was being eaten up by the Windows shell so perltidy didn't
510 -Corrected cause of warning message with recent versions of Perl:
511 "Possible precedence problem on bitwise & operator at ..."
514 -fixed bug with -html with '=for pod2html' sections, in which code/pod
515 output order was incorrect. Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.
517 -fixed bug when the -html flag is used, in which the following error
518 message, plus others, appear:
519 did not see <body> in pod2html output
520 This was caused by a change in the format of html output by pod2html
521 VERSION 1.04 (included with perl 5.8). Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.
523 -Fixed bug where an __END__ statement would be mistaken for a label
524 if it is immediately followed by a line with a leading colon. Thanks
527 -Implemented guessing logic for brace types when it is ambiguous. This
528 has been on the TODO list a long time. Thanks to Boris Zentner for
531 -Long options may now be negated either as '--nolong-option'
532 or '--no-long-option'. Thanks to Philip Newton for the suggestion.
534 -added flag --html-entities or -hent which controls the use of
535 Html::Entities for html formatting. Use --nohtml-entities or -nhent to
536 prevent the use of Html::Entities to encode special symbols. The
537 default is -hent. Html::Entities when formatting perl text to escape
538 special symbols. This may or may not be the right thing to do,
539 depending on browser/language combinations. Thanks to Burak Gursoy for
542 -Bareword strings with leading '-', like, '-foo' now count as 1 token
543 for horizontal tightness. This way $a{'-foo'}, $a{foo}, and $a{-foo}
544 are now all treated similarly. Thus, by default, OLD: $a{ -foo } will
545 now be NEW: $a{-foo}. Suggested by Mark Olesen.
547 -added 2 new flags to control spaces between keywords and opening parens:
548 -sak=s or --space-after-keyword=s, and
549 -nsak=s or --nospace-after-keyword=s, where 's' is a list of keywords.
551 The new default list of keywords which get a space is:
553 "my local our and or eq ne if else elsif until unless while for foreach
554 return switch case given when"
556 Use -sak=s and -nsak=s to add and remove keywords from this list,
559 Explanation: Stephen Hildrey noted that perltidy was being inconsistent
560 in placing spaces between keywords and opening parens, and sent a patch
561 to give user control over this. The above list was selected as being
562 a reasonable default keyword list. Previously, perltidy
563 had a hardwired list which also included these keywords:
565 push pop shift unshift join split die
567 but did not have 'our'. Example: if you prefer to make perltidy behave
568 exactly as before, you can include the following two lines in your
571 -sak="push pop local shift unshift join split die"
574 -Corrected html error in .toc file when -frm -html is used (extra ");
575 browsers were tolerant of it.
577 -Improved alignment of chains of binary and ?/: operators. Example:
591 -improved breakpoint choices involving '->'
593 -Corrected tokenization of things like ${#} or ${©}. For example,
594 ${©} is valid, but ${© } is a syntax error.
596 -Corrected minor tokenization errors with indirect object notation.
597 For example, 'new A::()' works now.
599 -Minor tokenization improvements; all perl code distributed with perl 5.8
600 seems to be parsed correctly except for one instance (lextest.t)
604 -Implemented scalar attributes. Thanks to Sean Tobin for noting this.
606 -Fixed glitch introduced in previous release where -pre option
607 was not outputting a leading html <pre> tag.
609 -Numerous minor improvements in vertical alignment, including the following:
611 -Improved alignment of opening braces in many cases. Needed for improved
612 switch/case formatting, and also suggested by Mark Olesen for sort/map/grep
613 formatting. For example:
618 sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
619 map { [ $_, -M ] } @filenames;
624 sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
625 map { [ $_, -M ] } @filenames;
627 -Eliminated alignments across unrelated statements. Example:
629 $borrowerinfo->configure( -state => 'disabled' );
630 $borrowerinfo->grid( -col => 1, -row => 0, -sticky => 'w' );
633 $borrowerinfo->configure( -state => 'disabled' );
634 $borrowerinfo->grid( -col => 1, -row => 0, -sticky => 'w' );
636 Thanks to Mark Olesen for suggesting this.
638 -Improved alignement of '='s in certain cases.
639 Thanks to Norbert Gruener for sending an example.
641 -Outdent-long-comments (-olc) has been re-instated as a default, since
642 it works much better now. Use -nolc if you want to prevent it.
644 -Added check for 'perltidy file.pl -o file.pl', which causes file.pl
645 to be lost. (The -b option should be used instead). Thanks to mreister
646 for reporting this problem.
649 -Switch/case or given/when syntax is now recognized. Its vertical alignment
650 is not great yet, but it parses ok. The words 'switch', 'case', 'given',
651 and 'when' are now treated as keywords. If this causes trouble with older
652 code, we could introduce a switch to deactivate it. Thanks to Stan Brown
653 and Jochen Schneider for recommending this.
655 -Corrected error parsing sub attributes with call parameters.
656 Thanks to Marc Kerr for catching this.
658 -Sub prototypes no longer need to be on the same line as sub names.
660 -a new flag -frm or --frames will cause html output to be in a
661 frame, with table of contents in the left panel and formatted source
662 in the right panel. Try 'perltidy -html -frm somemodule.pm' for example.
664 -The new default for -html formatting is to pass the pod through Pod::Html.
665 The result is syntax colored code within your pod documents. This can be
666 deactivated with -npod. Thanks to those who have written to discuss this,
667 particularly Mark Olesen and Hugh Myers.
669 -the -olc (--outdent-long-comments) option works much better. It now outdents
670 groups of consecutive comments together, and by just the amount needed to
671 avoid having any one line exceeding the maximum line length.
673 -block comments are now trimmed of trailing whitespace.
675 -if a directory specified with -opath does not exist, it will be created.
677 -a table of contents to packages and subs is output when -html is used.
678 Use -ntoc to prevent this.
680 -fixed an unusual bug in which a 'for' statement following a 'format'
681 statement was not correctly tokenized. Thanks to Boris Zentner for
684 -Tidy.pm is no longer dependent on modules IO::Scalar and IO::ScalarArray.
685 There were some speed issues. Suggested by Joerg Walter.
687 -The treatment of quoted wildcards (file globs) is now system-independent.
692 would match box.pl, box.pm, brinx.pm under any operating system. Of
693 course, anything unquoted will be subject to expansion by any shell.
695 -default color for keywords under -html changed from
696 SaddleBrown (#8B4513) to magenta4 (#8B008B).
698 -fixed an arg parsing glitch in which something like:
700 would trigger the help message and exit, rather than operate on the
704 -New option '-b' or '--backup-and-modify-in-place' will cause perltidy to
705 overwrite the original file with the tidied output file. The original
706 file will be saved with a '.bak' extension (which can be changed with
707 -bext=s). Thanks to Rudi Farkas for the suggestion.
709 -An index to all subs is included at the top of -html output, unless
710 only the <pre> section is written.
712 -Anchor lines of the form <a name="mysub"></a> are now inserted at key points
713 in html output, such as before sub definitions, for the convenience of
714 postprocessing scripts. Suggested by Howard Owen.
716 -The cuddled-else (-ce) flag now also makes cuddled continues, like
719 while ( ( $pack, $file, $line ) = caller( $i++ ) ) {
725 Suggested by Simon Perreault.
727 -Fixed bug in which an extra blank line was added before an =head or
728 similar pod line after an __END__ or __DATA__ line each time
729 perltidy was run. Also, an extra blank was being added after
730 a terminal =cut. Thanks to Mike Birdsall for reporting this.
733 -Fixed bug in which space was inserted in a hyphenated hash key:
734 my $val = $myhash{USER-NAME};
736 my $val = $myhash{USER -NAME};
737 Thanks to an anonymous bug reporter at sourceforge.
739 -Fixed problem with the '-io' ('--indent-only') where all lines
740 were double spaced. Thanks to Nick Andrew for reporting this bug.
742 -Fixed tokenization error in which something like '-e1' was
745 -Corrected a rare problem involving older perl versions, in which
746 a line break before a bareword caused problems with 'use strict'.
747 Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for noting this.
749 -More syntax error checking added.
751 -Outdenting labels (-ola) has been made the default, in order to follow the
752 perlstyle guidelines better. It's probably a good idea in general, but
753 if you do not want this, use -nola in your .perltidyrc file.
755 -Updated rules for padding logical expressions to include more cases.
756 Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions.
758 -Added new flag -osbc (--outdent-static-block-comments) which will
759 outdent static block comments by 2 spaces (or whatever -ci equals).
760 Requested by Jon Robison.
763 -Corrected a bug, introduced in the previous release, in which some
764 closing side comments (-csc) could have incorrect text. This is
765 annoying but will be correct the next time perltidy is run with -csc.
767 -Implemented XHTML patch submitted by Ville Skyttä.
769 -Fixed bug where whitespace was being removed between 'Bar' and '()'
770 in a use statement like:
774 Thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting this.
776 -Whenever possible, if a logical expression is broken with leading
777 '&&', '||', 'and', or 'or', then the leading line will be padded
778 with additional space to produce alignment. This has been on the
779 todo list for a long time; thanks to Frank Steinhauer for reminding
780 me to do it. Notice the first line after the open parens here:
784 !param("rules.to.$linecount")
785 && !param("rules.from.$linecount")
786 && !param("rules.subject.$linecount")
788 param("rules.fieldname.$linecount")
789 && param("rules.fieldval.$linecount")
791 && !param("rules.size.$linecount")
792 && !param("rules.custom.$linecount")
797 !param("rules.to.$linecount")
798 && !param("rules.from.$linecount")
799 && !param("rules.subject.$linecount")
801 param("rules.fieldname.$linecount")
802 && param("rules.fieldval.$linecount")
804 && !param("rules.size.$linecount")
805 && !param("rules.custom.$linecount")
809 -Corrected a mistokenization of variables for a package with a name
810 equal to a perl keyword. For example:
814 sub qx{print "Hello from my::qx\n";}
816 In this case, the leading 'my' was mistokenized as a keyword, and a
817 space was being place between 'my' and '::'. This has been
818 corrected. Thanks to Martin Sluka for discovering this.
820 -A new flag -bol (--break-at-old-logic-breakpoints)
821 has been added to control whether containers with logical expressions
822 should be broken open. This is the default.
824 -A new flag -bok (--break-at-old-keyword-breakpoints)
825 has been added to follow breaks at old keywords which return lists,
826 such as sort and map. This is the default.
828 -A new flag -bot (--break-at-old-trinary-breakpoints) has been added to
829 follow breaks at trinary (conditional) operators. This is the default.
831 -A new flag -cab=n has been added to control breaks at commas after
832 '=>' tokens. The default is n=1, meaning break unless this breaks
833 open an existing on-line container.
835 -A new flag -boc has been added to allow existing list formatting
836 to be retained. (--break-at-old-comma-breakpoints). See updated manual.
838 -A new flag -iob (--ignore-old-breakpoints) has been added to
839 prevent the locations of old breakpoints from influencing the output
842 -Corrected problem where nested parentheses were not getting full
843 indentation. This has been on the todo list for some time; thanks
844 to Axel Rose for a snippet demonstrating this issue.
846 OLD: inner list is not indented
850 $ret->name, $user->username, $user->host,
851 $user->server->name, $user->nick, "H"
859 $ret->name, $user->username, $user->host,
860 $user->server->name, $user->nick, "H"
864 -Code cleaned up by removing the following unused, undocumented flags.
865 They should not be in any .perltidyrc files because they were just
866 experimental flags which were never documented. Most of them placed
867 artificial limits on spaces, and Wolfgang Weisselberg convinced me that
868 most of them they do more harm than good by causing unexpected results.
870 --maximum-continuation-indentation (-mci)
871 --maximum-whitespace-columns
872 --maximum-space-to-comment (-xsc)
873 --big-space-jump (-bsj)
875 -Pod file 'perltidy.pod' has been appended to the script 'perltidy', and
876 Tidy.pod has been append to the module 'Tidy.pm'. Older MakeMaker's
879 -A new flag -isbc has been added for more control on comments. This flag
880 has the effect that if there is no leading space on the line, then the
881 comment will not be indented, and otherwise it may be. If both -ibc and
882 -isbc are set, then -isbc takes priority. Thanks to Frank Steinhauer
885 -A new document 'stylekey.pod' has been created to quickly guide new users
886 through the maze of perltidy style parameters. An html version is
887 on the perltidy web page. Take a look! It should be very helpful.
889 -Parameters for controlling 'vertical tightness' have been added:
890 -vt and -vtc are the main controls, but finer control is provided
891 with -pvt, -pcvt, -bvt, -bcvt, -sbvt, -sbcvt. Block brace vertical
892 tightness controls have also been added.
893 See updated manual and also see 'stylekey.pod'. Simple examples:
895 # perltidy -lp -vt=1 -vtc=1
896 @month_of_year = ( 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
897 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec' );
899 # perltidy -lp -vt=1 -vtc=0
900 @month_of_year = ( 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
901 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
904 -Lists which do not format well in uniform columns are now better
905 identified and formated.
908 return $c->create( 'polygon', $x, $y, $x + $ruler_info{'size'},
909 $y + $ruler_info{'size'}, $x - $ruler_info{'size'},
910 $y + $ruler_info{'size'} );
915 $x + $ruler_info{'size'},
916 $y + $ruler_info{'size'},
917 $x - $ruler_info{'size'},
918 $y + $ruler_info{'size'}
922 radlablist($f1, pad('Initial', $p), $b->{Init}->get_panel_ref, 'None ',
923 'None', 'Default', 'Default', 'Simple', 'Simple');
927 $b->{Init}->get_panel_ref,
928 'None ', 'None', 'Default', 'Default', 'Simple', 'Simple');
930 -Corrected problem where an incorrect html filename was generated for
931 external calls to Tidy.pm module. Fixed incorrect html title when
932 Tidy.pm is called with IO::Scalar or IO::Array source.
934 -Output file permissons are now set as follows. An output script file
935 gets the same permission as the input file, except that owner
936 read/write permission is added (otherwise, perltidy could not be
937 rerun). Html output files use system defaults. Previously chmod 0755
938 was used in all cases. Thanks to Mark Olesen for bringing this up.
940 -Missing semicolons will not be added in multi-line blocks of type
941 sort, map, or grep. This brings perltidy into closer agreement
942 with common practice. Of course, you can still put semicolons
943 there if you like. Thanks to Simon Perreault for a discussion of this.
945 -Most instances of extra semicolons are now deleted. This is
946 particularly important if the -csc option is used. Thanks to Wolfgang
947 Weisselberg for noting this. For example, the following line
948 (produced by 'h2xs' :) has an extra semicolon which will now be
951 BEGIN { plan tests => 1 };
953 -New parameter -csce (--closing-side-comment-else-flag) can be used
954 to control what text is appended to 'else' and 'elsif' blocks.
955 Default is to just add leading 'if' text to an 'else'. See manual.
957 -The -csc option now labels 'else' blocks with additinal information
958 from the opening if statement and elsif statements, if space.
959 Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for suggesting this.
961 -The -csc option will now remove any old closing side comments
962 below the line interval threshold. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for
965 -The abbreviation feature, which was broken in the previous version,
966 is now fixed. Thanks to Michael Cartmell for noting this.
968 -Vertical alignment is now done for '||=' .. somehow this was
972 -This version uses modules for the first time, and a standard perl
973 Makefile.PL has been supplied. However, perltidy may still be
974 installed as a single script, without modules. See INSTALL for
977 -The man page 'perl2web' has been merged back into the main 'perltidy'
978 man page to simplify installation. So you may remove that man page
979 if you have an older installation.
981 -Added patch from Axel Rose for MacPerl. The patch prompts the user
982 for command line arguments before calling the module
983 Perl::Tidy::perltidy.
985 -Corrected bug with '-bar' which was introduced in the previous
986 version. A closing block brace was being indented. Thanks to
987 Alexandros M Manoussakis for reporting this.
989 -New parameter '--entab-leading-whitespace=n', or '-et=n', has been
990 added for those who prefer tabs. This behaves different from the
991 existing '-t' parameter; see updated man page. Suggested by Mark
994 -New parameter '--perl-syntax-check-flags=s' or '-pcsf=s' can be
995 used to change the flags passed to perltidy in a syntax check.
996 See updated man page. Suggested by Mark Olesen.
998 -New parameter '--output-path=s' or '-opath=s' will cause output
999 files to be placed in directory s. See updated man page. Thanks for
1000 Mark Olesen for suggesting this.
1002 -New parameter --dump-profile (or -dpro) will dump to
1003 standard output information about the search for a
1004 configuration file, the name of whatever configuration file
1005 is selected, and its contents. This should help debugging
1006 config files, especially on different Windows systems.
1008 -The -w parameter now notes possible errors of the form:
1010 $comment = s/^\s*(\S+)\..*/$1/; # trim whitespace
1012 -Corrections added for a leading ':' and for leaving a leading 'tcsh'
1013 line untouched. Mark Olesen reported that lines of this form were
1014 accepted by perl but not by perltidy:
1016 : # use -*- perl -*-
1017 eval 'exec perl -wS $0 "$@"' # shell should exec 'perl'
1018 unless 1; # but Perl should skip this one
1020 Perl will silently swallow a leading colon on line 1 of a
1021 script, and now perltidy will do likewise. For example,
1022 this is a valid script, provided that it is the first line,
1025 : print "Hello World\n";
1027 Also, perltidy will now mark a first line with leading ':' followed by
1028 '#' as type SYSTEM (just as a #! line), not to be formatted.
1030 -List formatting improved for certain lists with special
1031 initial terms, such as occur with 'printf', 'sprintf',
1032 'push', 'pack', 'join', 'chmod'. The special initial term is
1033 now placed on a line by itself. For example, perltidy -gnu
1037 "C4", hex($SourceAddr[0]),
1038 hex($SourceAddr[1]), hex($SourceAddr[2]),
1044 hex($SourceAddr[0]), hex($SourceAddr[1]),
1045 hex($SourceAddr[2]), hex($SourceAddr[3]));
1049 @{$$self{states}}, '64', '66', '68',
1050 '70', '72', '74', '76',
1051 '78', '80', '82', '84',
1052 '86', '88', '90', '92',
1053 '94', '96', '98', '100',
1060 '64', '66', '68', '70', '72', '74', '76',
1061 '78', '80', '82', '84', '86', '88', '90',
1062 '92', '94', '96', '98', '100', '102', '104'
1065 -Lists of complex items, such as matricies, are now detected
1066 and displayed with just one item per row:
1069 $this->{'CURRENT'}{'gfx'}{'MatrixSkew'} = Text::PDF::API::Matrix->new(
1070 [ 1, tan( deg2rad($a) ), 0 ], [ tan( deg2rad($b) ), 1, 0 ],
1075 $this->{'CURRENT'}{'gfx'}{'MatrixSkew'} = Text::PDF::API::Matrix->new(
1076 [ 1, tan( deg2rad($a) ), 0 ],
1077 [ tan( deg2rad($b) ), 1, 0 ],
1081 -The perl syntax check will be turned off for now when input is from
1082 standard input or standard output. The reason is that this requires
1083 temporary files, which has produced far too many problems during
1084 Windows testing. For example, the POSIX module under Windows XP/2000
1085 creates temporary names in the root directory, to which only the
1086 administrator should have permission to write.
1088 -Merged patch sent by Yves Orton to handle appropriate
1089 configuration file locations for different Windows varieties
1090 (2000, NT, Me, XP, 95, 98).
1092 -Added patch to properly handle a for/foreach loop without
1093 parens around a list represented as a qw. I didn't know this
1094 was possible until Wolfgang Weisselberg pointed it out:
1096 foreach my $key qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
1100 But Perl will give a syntax error without the $ variable; ie this will
1103 foreach qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
1107 -Merged Windows version detection code sent by Yves Orton. Perltidy
1108 now automatically turns off syntax checking for Win 9x/ME versions,
1109 and this has solved a lot of robustness problems. These systems
1110 cannot reliably handle backtick operators. See man page for
1113 -Merged VMS filename handling patch sent by Michael Cartmell. (Invalid
1114 output filenames were being created in some cases).
1116 -Numerous minor improvements have been made for -lp style indentation.
1118 -Long C-style 'for' expressions will be broken after each ';'.
1120 'perltidy -gnu' gives:
1123 for ($status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_CURSOR()) ; $status == 0
1124 and $key eq $origkey ; $status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_NEXT()))
1127 for ($status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_CURSOR()) ;
1128 $status == 0 and $key eq $origkey ;
1129 $status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_NEXT()))
1131 -For the -lp option, a single long term within parens
1132 (without commas) now has better alignment. For example,
1136 $self->throw("Must specify a known host, not $location,"
1137 . " possible values ("
1138 . join (",", sort keys %hosts) . ")");
1141 $self->throw("Must specify a known host, not $location,"
1142 . " possible values ("
1143 . join (",", sort keys %hosts) . ")");
1146 -This version is about 20 percent faster than the previous
1147 version as a result of optimization work. The largest gain
1148 came from switching to a dispatch hash table in the
1151 -perltidy -html will check to see if HTML::Entities is
1152 installed, and if so, it will use it to encode unsafe
1155 -Added flag -oext=ext to change the output file extension to
1156 be different from the default ('tdy' or 'html'). For
1159 perltidy -html -oext=htm filename
1161 will produce filename.htm
1163 -Added flag -cscw to issue warnings if a closing side comment would replace
1164 an existing, different side comments. See the man page for details.
1165 Thanks to Peter Masiar for helpful discussions.
1167 -Corrected tokenization error of signed hex/octal/binary numbers. For
1168 example, the first hex number below would have been parsed correctly
1169 but the second one was not:
1170 if ( ( $tmp >= 0x80_00_00 ) || ( $tmp < -0x80_00_00 ) ) { }
1172 -'**=' was incorrectly tokenized as '**' and '='. This only
1173 caused a problem with the -extrude opton.
1175 -Corrected a divide by zero when -extrude option is used
1177 -The flag -w will now contain all errors reported by 'perl -c' on the
1178 input file, but otherwise they are not reported. The reason is that
1179 perl will report lots of problems and syntax errors which are not of
1180 interest when only a small snippet is being formatted (such as missing
1181 modules and unknown bare words). Perltidy will always report all
1182 significant syntax errors that it finds, such as unbalanced braces,
1183 unless the -q (quiet) flag is set.
1185 -Merged modifications created by Hugh Myers into perltidy.
1186 These include a 'streamhandle' routine which allows perltidy
1187 as a module to operate on input and output arrays and strings
1188 in addition to files. Documentation and new packaging as a
1189 module should be ready early next year; This is an elegant,
1190 powerful update; many thanks to Hugh for contributing it.
1193 -added a tentative patch which tries to keep any existing breakpoints
1194 at lines with leading keywords map,sort,eval,grep. The idea is to
1195 improve formatting of sequences of list operations, as in a schwartzian
1199 my @sorted = map { $_->[0] }
1200 sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1201 map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1205 map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1208 my @sorted = map { $_->[0] }
1209 sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1210 map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1212 The new alignment is not as nice as the input, but this is an improvement.
1213 Thanks to Yves Orton for this suggestion.
1215 -modified indentation logic so that a line with leading opening paren,
1216 brace, or square bracket will never have less indentation than the
1217 line with the corresponding opening token. Here's a simple example:
1221 -text => "New Document",
1222 -command => \&new_document
1228 Note how the closing ');' is lined up with the first line, even
1229 though it closes a paren in the 'pack' line. That seems wrong.
1233 -text => "New Document",
1234 -command => \&new_document
1240 This seems nicer: you can up-arrow with an editor and arrive at the
1241 opening 'pack' line.
1243 -corrected minor glitch in which cuddled else (-ce) did not get applied
1244 to an 'unless' block, which should look like this:
1252 Thanks to Jeremy Mates for reporting this.
1254 -The man page has been reorganized to parameters easier to find.
1256 -Added check for multiple definitions of same subroutine. It is easy
1257 to introduce this problem when cutting and pasting. Perl does not
1258 complain about it, but it can lead to disaster.
1260 -The command -pro=filename or -profile=filename may be used to specify a
1261 configuration file which will override the default name of .perltidyrc.
1262 There must not be a space on either side of the '=' sign. I needed
1263 this to be able to easily test perltidy with a variety of different
1264 configuration files.
1266 -Side comment alignment has been improved somewhat across frequent level
1267 changes, as in short if/else blocks. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg
1268 for pointing out this problem. For example:
1271 if ( ref $self ) { # Called as a method
1274 else { # Regular procedure call
1280 if ( ref $self ) { # Called as a method
1283 else { # Regular procedure call
1288 -New command -ssc (--static-side-comment) and related command allows
1289 side comments to be spaced close to preceding character. This is
1290 useful for displaying commented code as side comments.
1292 -New command -csc (--closing-side-comment) and several related
1293 commands allow comments to be added to (and deleted from) any or all
1294 closing block braces. This can be useful if you have to maintain large
1295 programs, especially those that you didn't write. See updated man page.
1296 Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion. For a simple example:
1301 if ( !defined( $_[0] ) ) {
1302 print("Hello, World\n");
1305 print( $_[0], "\n" );
1309 This added '## end sub foo' to the closing brace.
1310 To remove it, perltidy -ncsc.
1312 -New commands -ola, for outdenting labels, and -okw, for outdenting
1313 selected control keywords, were implemented. See the perltidy man
1314 page for details. Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.
1316 -Hanging side comment change: a comment will not be considered to be a
1317 hanging side comment if there is no leading whitespace on the line.
1318 This should improve the reliability of identifying hanging side comments.
1319 Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.
1321 -Two new commands for outdenting, -olq (outdent-long-quotes) and -olc
1322 (outdent-long-comments), have been added. The original -oll
1323 (outdent-long-lines) remains, and now is an abbreviation for -olq and -olc.
1324 The new default is just -olq. This was necessary to avoid inconsistency with
1325 the new static block comment option.
1327 -Static block comments: to provide a way to display commented code
1328 better, the convention is used that comments with a leading '##' should
1329 not be formatted as usual. Please see '-sbc' (or '--static-block-comment')
1330 for documentation. It can be deactivated with with -nsbc, but
1331 should not normally be necessary. Thanks to Peter Masiar for this
1334 -Two changes were made to help show structure of complex lists:
1335 (1) breakpoints are forced after every ',' in a list where any of
1336 the list items spans multiple lines, and
1337 (2) List items which span multiple lines now get continuation indentation.
1339 The following example illustrates both of these points. Many thanks to
1340 Wolfgang Weisselberg for this snippet and a discussion of it; this is a
1341 significant formatting improvement. Note how it is easier to see the call
1342 parameters in the NEW version:
1345 assert( __LINE__, ( not defined $check )
1348 or $check eq "old", "Error in parameters",
1349 defined $old_new ? ( ref $old_new ? ref $old_new : $old_new ) : "undef",
1350 defined $db_new ? ( ref $db_new ? ref $db_new : $db_new ) : "undef",
1351 defined $old_db ? ( ref $old_db ? ref $old_db : $old_db ) : "undef" );
1356 ( not defined $check )
1360 "Error in parameters",
1361 defined $old_new ? ( ref $old_new ? ref $old_new : $old_new ) : "undef",
1362 defined $db_new ? ( ref $db_new ? ref $db_new : $db_new ) : "undef",
1363 defined $old_db ? ( ref $old_db ? ref $old_db : $old_db ) : "undef"
1366 Another example shows how this helps displaying lists:
1369 %{ $self->{COMPONENTS} } = (
1371 { type => 'name', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 0 },
1373 { type => 'road', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 2 },
1376 The structure is clearer with the added indentation:
1379 %{ $self->{COMPONENTS} } = (
1381 { type => 'name', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 0 },
1383 { type => 'road', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 2 },
1386 -The structure of nested logical expressions is now displayed better.
1387 Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions. For example,
1388 note how the status of the final 'or' is displayed in the following:
1392 and null( $op->sibling )
1393 and $op->ppaddr eq "pp_null"
1394 and class($op) eq "UNOP"
1395 and ( ( $op->first->ppaddr =~ /^pp_(and|or)$/
1396 and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq" )
1397 or ( $op->first->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1398 and not null $op->first->first->sibling
1399 and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_unstack" ) ) );
1404 and null( $op->sibling )
1405 and $op->ppaddr eq "pp_null"
1406 and class($op) eq "UNOP"
1409 $op->first->ppaddr =~ /^pp_(and|or)$/
1410 and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1412 or ( $op->first->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1413 and not null $op->first->first->sibling
1414 and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_unstack" )
1418 -A break will always be put before a list item containing a comma-arrow.
1419 This will improve formatting of mixed lists of this form:
1423 'text', 225, 20, -text => 'A Simple Plot',
1431 -text => 'A Simple Plot',
1436 -For convenience, the command -dac (--delete-all-comments) now also
1437 deletes pod. Likewise, -tac (--tee-all-comments) now also sends pod
1438 to a '.TEE' file. Complete control over the treatment of pod and
1439 comments is still possible, as described in the updated help message
1442 -The logic which breaks open 'containers' has been rewritten to be completely
1443 symmetric in the following sense: if a line break is placed after an opening
1444 {, [, or (, then a break will be placed before the corresponding closing
1445 token. Thus, a container either remains closed or is completely cracked
1448 -Improved indentation of parenthesized lists. For example,
1453 atan2( $GPSTempCompLong - $GPSLongitude,
1454 $GPSLatitude - $GPSTempCompLat ) * 180 / 3.14159265 );
1457 $GPSCompCourse = int(
1459 $GPSTempCompLong - $GPSLongitude,
1460 $GPSLatitude - $GPSTempCompLat
1461 ) * 180 / 3.14159265
1464 Further improvements will be made in future releases.
1466 -Some improvements were made in formatting small lists.
1468 -Correspondence between Input and Output line numbers reported in a
1469 .LOG file should now be exact. They were sometimes off due to the size
1470 of intermediate buffers.
1472 -Corrected minor tokenization error in which a ';' in a foreach loop
1473 control was tokenized as a statement termination, which forced a
1486 foreach ( $i = 0 ; $i <= 10 ; $i += 2 ) {
1490 -Corrected a problem with reading config files, in which quote marks were not
1491 stripped. As a result, something like -wba="&& . || " would have the leading
1492 quote attached to the && and not work correctly. A workaround for older
1493 versions is to place a space around all tokens within the quotes, like this:
1496 -Removed any existing space between a label and its ':'
1499 This was necessary because the label and its colon are a single token.
1501 -Corrected tokenization error for the following (highly non-recommended)
1503 $user = @vars[1] / 100;
1505 -Resolved cause of a difference between perltidy under perl v5.6.1 and
1506 5.005_03; the problem was different behavior of \G regex position
1510 -Corrected a bug in which a break was not being made after a full-line
1511 comment within a short eval/sort/map/grep block. A flag was not being
1512 zeroed. The syntax error check catches this. Here is a snippet which
1513 illustrates the bug:
1516 #open Socket to Dispatcher
1517 $sock = &OpenSocket;
1520 The formatter mistakenly thought that it had found the following
1523 eval {#open Socket to Dispatcher$sock = &OpenSocket; };
1525 The patch fixes this. Many thanks to Henry Story for reporting this bug.
1527 -Changes were made to help diagnose and resolve problems in a
1529 (1) processing of command parameters has been into two separate
1530 batches so that any errors in a .perltidyrc file can be localized.
1531 (2) commands --help, --version, and as many of the --dump-xxx
1532 commands are handled immediately, without any command line processing
1534 (3) Perltidy will ignore any commands in the .perltidyrc file which
1535 cause immediate exit. These are: -h -v -ddf -dln -dop -dsn -dtt
1536 -dwls -dwrs -ss. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful
1537 suggestions regarding these updates.
1539 -Syntax check has been reinstated as default for MSWin32 systems. This
1540 way Windows 2000 users will get syntax check by default, which seems
1541 like a better idea, since the number of Win 95/98 systems will be
1542 decreasing over time. Documentation revised to warn Windows 95/98
1543 users about the problem with empty '&1'. Too bad these systems
1544 all report themselves as MSWin32.
1547 -Fixed tokenization error in which a method call of the form
1551 got a space before the '::' like this:
1555 Thanks to David Holden for reporting this.
1557 -Added -html control over pod text, using a new abbreviation 'pd'. See
1558 updated perl2web man page. The default is to use the color of a comment,
1559 but italicized. Old .css style sheets will need a new line for
1560 .pd to use this. The old color was the color of a string, and there
1563 -.css lines are now printed in sorted order.
1565 -Fixed interpolation problem where html files had '$input_file' as title
1566 instead of actual input file name. Thanks to Simon Perreault for finding
1567 this and sending a patch, and also to Tobias Weber.
1569 -Breaks will now have the ':' placed at the start of a line,
1570 one per line by default because this shows logical structure
1571 more clearly. This coding has been completely redone. Some
1572 examples of new ?/: formatting:
1575 wantarray ? map( $dir::cwd->lookup($_)->path, @_ ) :
1576 $dir::cwd->lookup( $_[0] )->path;
1580 ? map( $dir::cwd->lookup($_)->path, @_ )
1581 : $dir::cwd->lookup( $_[0] )->path;
1587 } : { a => 6, b => 8 };
1595 : { a => 6, b => 8 };
1598 $self->note($self->{skip} ? "Hunk #$self->{hunk} ignored at 1.\n" :
1599 "Hunk #$self->{hunk} failed--$@");
1602 $self->note($self->{skip}
1603 ? "Hunk #$self->{hunk} ignored at 1.\n"
1604 : "Hunk #$self->{hunk} failed--$@");
1608 $opts{"t"} ? 'title' :
1609 $opts{"s"} ? 'subject' : $opts{"a"} ? 'author' : 'title';
1613 $opts{"t"} ? 'title'
1614 : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
1615 : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
1618 You can use -wba=':' to recover the previous default which placed ':'
1619 at the end of a line. Thanks to Michael Cartmell for helpful
1620 discussions and examples.
1622 -Tokenizer updated to do syntax checking for matched ?/: pairs. Also,
1623 the tokenizer now outputs a unique serial number for every balanced
1624 pair of brace types and ?/: pairs. This greatly simplifies the
1627 -Long lines with repeated 'and', 'or', '&&', '||' will now have
1628 one such item per line. For example:
1631 if ( $opt_d || $opt_m || $opt_p || $opt_t || $opt_x
1632 || ( -e $archive && $opt_r ) )
1634 ( $pAr, $pNames ) = readAr($archive);
1643 || ( -e $archive && $opt_r ) )
1645 ( $pAr, $pNames ) = readAr($archive);
1649 if ( $vp->{X0} + 4 <= $x && $vp->{X0} + $vp->{W} - 4 >= $x
1650 && $vp->{Y0} + 4 <= $y && $vp->{Y0} + $vp->{H} - 4 >= $y )
1653 if ( $vp->{X0} + 4 <= $x
1654 && $vp->{X0} + $vp->{W} - 4 >= $x
1655 && $vp->{Y0} + 4 <= $y
1656 && $vp->{Y0} + $vp->{H} - 4 >= $y )
1658 -Long lines with multiple concatenated tokens will have concatenated
1659 terms (see below) placed one per line, except for short items. For
1664 "Device type:" . $ib->family . " ID:" . $ib->serial . " CRC:"
1665 . $ib->crc . ": " . $ib->model() . "\n";
1668 $report .= "Device type:"
1669 . $ib->family . " ID:"
1670 . $ib->serial . " CRC:"
1672 . $ib->crc . ": " . "\n";
1674 NOTE: at present 'short' means 8 characters or less. There is a
1675 tentative flag to change this (-scl), but it is undocumented and
1676 is likely to be changed or removed later, so only use it for testing.
1677 In the above example, the tokens " ID:", " CRC:", and "\n" are below
1680 -If a line which is short enough to fit on a single line was
1681 nevertheless broken in the input file at a 'good' location (see below),
1682 perltidy will try to retain a break. For example, the following line
1683 will be formatted as:
1686 or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";
1688 if it was broken in the input file, and like this if not:
1690 open SUM, "<$file" or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";
1692 GOOD: 'good' location means before 'and','or','if','unless','&&','||'
1694 The reason perltidy does not just always break at these points is that if
1695 there are multiple, similar statements, this would preclude alignment. So
1696 rather than check for this, perltidy just tries to follow the input style,
1697 in the hopes that the author made a good choice. Here is an example where
1698 we might not want to break before each 'if':
1700 ($Locale, @Locale) = ($English, @English) if (@English > @Locale);
1701 ($Locale, @Locale) = ($German, @German) if (@German > @Locale);
1702 ($Locale, @Locale) = ($French, @French) if (@French > @Locale);
1703 ($Locale, @Locale) = ($Spanish, @Spanish) if (@Spanish > @Locale);
1705 -Added wildcard file expansion for systems with shells which lack this.
1706 Now 'perltidy *.pl' should work under MSDOS/Windows. Thanks to Hugh Myers
1707 for suggesting this. This uses builtin glob() for now; I may change that.
1709 -Added new flag -sbl which, if specified, overrides the value of -bl
1710 for opening sub braces. This allows formatting of this type:
1716 if (!defined($_[0])) {
1717 print("Hello, World\n");
1723 Requested by Don Alexander.
1725 -Fixed minor parsing error which prevented a space after a $$ variable
1726 (pid) in some cases. Thanks to Michael Cartmell for noting this.
1731 -Improved line break choices 'and' and 'or' to display logic better.
1735 exists $self->{'build_dir'} and push @e,
1736 "Unwrapped into directory $self->{'build_dir'}";
1739 exists $self->{'build_dir'}
1740 and push @e, "Unwrapped into directory $self->{'build_dir'}";
1742 -Fixed error of multiple use of abbreviatioin '-dsc'. -dsc remains
1743 abbreviation for delete-side-comments; -dsm is new abbreviation for
1746 -Corrected and updated 'usage' help routine. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for
1749 -The default for Windows is, for now, not to do a 'perl -c' syntax
1750 check (but -syn will activate it). This is because of problems with
1751 command.com. James Freeman sent me a patch which tries to get around
1752 the problems, and it works in many cases, but testing revealed several
1753 issues that still need to be resolved. So for now, the default is no
1754 syntax check for Windows.
1756 -I added a -T flag when doing perl -c syntax check.
1757 This is because I test it on a large number of scripts from sources
1758 unknown, and who knows what might be hidden in initialization blocks?
1759 Also, deactivated the syntax check if perltidy is run as root. As a
1760 benign example, running the previous version of perltidy on the
1761 following file would cause it to disappear:
1764 print "Bye, bye baby!\n";
1768 The new version will not let that happen.
1770 -I am contemplating (but have not yet implemented) making '-lp' the
1771 default indentation, because it is stable now and may be closer to how
1772 perl is commonly formatted. This could be in the next release. The
1773 reason that '-lp' was not the original default is that the coding for
1774 it was complex and not ready for the initial release of perltidy. If
1775 anyone has any strong feelings about this, I'd like to hear. The
1776 current default could always be recovered with the '-nlp' flag.
1780 - sub definition names are now specially colored, red by default.
1781 The letter 'm' is used to identify them.
1782 - keyword 'sub' now has color of other keywords.
1783 - restored html keyword color to __END__ and __DATA__, which was
1784 accidentally removed in the previous version.
1786 -A new -se (--standard-error-output) flag has been implemented and
1787 documented which causes all errors to be written to standard output
1788 instead of a .ERR file.
1790 -A new -w (--warning-output) flag has been implemented and documented
1791 which causes perltidy to output certain non-critical messages to the
1792 error output file, .ERR. These include complaints about pod usage,
1793 for example. The default is to not include these.
1795 NOTE: This replaces an undocumented -w=0 or --warning-level flag
1796 which was tentatively introduced in the previous version to avoid some
1797 unwanted messages. The new default is the same as the old -w=0, so
1798 that is no longer needed.
1800 -Improved syntax checking and corrected tokenization of functions such
1801 as rand, srand, sqrt, ... These can accept either an operator or a term
1802 to their right. This has been corrected.
1804 -Corrected tokenization of semicolon: testing of the previous update showed
1805 that the semicolon in the following statement was being mis-tokenized. That
1806 did no harm, other than adding an extra blank space, but has been corrected.
1808 for (sort {strcoll($a,$b);} keys %investments) {
1812 -New syntax check: after wasting 5 minutes trying to resolve a syntax
1813 error in which I had an extra terminal ';' in a complex for (;;) statement,
1814 I spent a few more minutes adding a check for this in perltidy so it won't
1817 -The behavior of --break-before-subs (-bbs) and --break-before-blocks
1818 (-bbb) has been modified. Also, a new control parameter,
1819 --long-block-line-count=n (-lbl=n) has been introduced to give more
1820 control on -bbb. This was previously a hardwired value. The reason
1821 for the change is to reduce the number of unwanted blank lines that
1822 perltidy introduces, and make it less erratic. It's annoying to remove
1823 an unwanted blank line and have perltidy put it back. The goal is to
1824 be able to sprinkle a few blank lines in that dense script you
1825 inherited from Bubba. I did a lot of experimenting with different
1826 schemes for introducing blank lines before and after code blocks, and
1827 decided that there is no really good way to do it. But I think the new
1828 scheme is an improvement. You can always deactivate this with -nbbb.
1829 I've been meaning to work on this; thanks to Erik Thaysen for bringing
1832 -The .LOG file is seldom needed, and I get tired of deleting them, so
1833 they will now only be automatically saved if perltidy thinks that it
1834 made an error, which is almost never. You can still force the logfile
1835 to be saved with -log or -g.
1837 -Improved method for computing number of columns in a table. The old
1838 method always tried for an even number. The new method allows odd
1839 numbers when it is obvious that a list is not a hash initialization
1843 $name, $xsargs, $parobjs, $optypes,
1844 $hasp2child, $pmcode, $hdrcode, $inplacecode,
1845 $globalnew, $callcopy
1850 $name, $xsargs, $parobjs, $optypes, $hasp2child,
1851 $pmcode, $hdrcode, $inplacecode, $globalnew, $callcopy
1855 -I fiddled with the list threshold adjustment, and some small lists
1856 look better now. Here is the change for one of the lists in test file
1860 ("in", "in", "pt", "pt", "pc", "pi", "mm", "mm", "cm", "cm", "\\hsize", "%",
1861 "\\vsize", "%", "\\textwidth", "%", "\\textheight", "%");
1865 "in", "in", "pt", "pt", "pc", "pi",
1866 "mm", "mm", "cm", "cm", "\\hsize", "%",
1867 "\\vsize", "%", "\\textwidth", "%", "\\textheight", "%"
1870 -Improved -lp formatting at '=' sign. A break was always being added after
1871 the '=' sign in a statement such as this, (to be sure there was enough room
1872 for the parameters):
1877 $biblionumber, $constraint,
1881 The updated version doesn't do this unless the space is really needed:
1883 new: my $fee = CalcReserveFee(
1885 $biblionumber, $constraint,
1889 -I updated the tokenizer to allow $#+ and $#-, which seem to be new to
1890 Perl 5.6. Some experimenting with a recent version of Perl indicated
1891 that it allows these non-alphanumeric '$#' array maximum index
1892 varaibles: $#: $#- $#+ so I updated the parser accordingly. Only $#:
1893 seems to be valid in older versions of Perl.
1895 -Fixed a rare formatting problem with -lp (and -gnu) which caused
1896 excessive indentation.
1898 -Many additional syntax checks have been added.
1900 -Revised method for testing here-doc target strings; the following
1901 was causing trouble with a regex test because of the '*' characters:
1905 Perl seems to allow almost anything to be a here doc target, so an
1906 exact string comparison is now used.
1908 -Made update to allow underscores in binary numbers, like '0b1100_0000'.
1910 -Corrected problem with scanning certain module names; a blank space was
1911 being inserted after 'warnings' in the following:
1912 use warnings::register;
1913 The problem was that warnings (and a couple of other key modules) were
1914 being tokenized as keywords. They should have just been identifiers.
1916 -Corrected tokenization of indirect objects after sort, system, and exec,
1917 after testing produced an incorrect error message for the following
1919 print sort $sortsubref @list;
1921 -Corrected minor problem where a line after a format had unwanted
1922 extra continuation indentation.
1924 -Delete-block-comments (and -dac) now retain any leading hash-bang line
1926 -Update for -lp (and -gnu) to not align the leading '=' of a list
1927 with a previous '=', since this interferes with alignment of parameters.
1929 old: my $hireDay = new Date;
1936 new: my $hireDay = new Date;
1943 -Modifications made to display tables more compactly when possible,
1944 without adding lines. For example,
1946 '1', "I", '2', "II", '3', "III", '4', "IV",
1947 '5', "V", '6', "VI", '7', "VII", '8', "VIII",
1950 '1', "I", '2', "II", '3', "III",
1951 '4', "IV", '5', "V", '6', "VI",
1952 '7', "VII", '8', "VIII", '9', "IX"
1954 -Corrected minor bug in which -pt=2 did not keep the right paren tight
1955 around a '++' or '--' token, like this:
1957 for ($i = 0 ; $i < length $key ; $i++ )
1959 The formatting for this should be, and now is:
1961 for ($i = 0 ; $i < length $key ; $i++)
1963 Thanks to Erik Thaysen for noting this.
1965 -Discovered a new bug involving here-docs during testing! See BUGS.html.
1967 -Finally fixed parsing of subroutine attributes (A Perl 5.6 feature).
1968 However, the attributes and prototypes must still be on the same line
1972 -Corrected minor, uncommon bug found during routine testing, in which a
1973 blank got inserted between a function name and its opening paren after
1974 a file test operator, but only in the case that the function had not
1975 been previously seen. Perl uses the existance (or lack thereof) of
1976 the blank to guess if it is a function call. That is,
1977 if (-l pid_filename()) {
1979 if (-l pid_filename ()) {
1980 which is a syntax error if pid_filename has not been seen by perl.
1982 -If the AutoLoader module is used, perltidy will continue formatting
1983 code after seeing an __END__ line. Use -nlal to deactivate this feature.
1984 Likewise, if the SelfLoader module is used, perltidy will continue
1985 formatting code after seeing a __DATA__ line. Use -nlsl to
1986 deactivate this feature. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.
1988 -pod text after __END__ and __DATA__ is now identified by perltidy
1989 so that -dp works correctly. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.
1991 -The first $VERSION line which might be eval'd by MakeMaker
1992 is now passed through unchanged. Use -npvl to deactivate this feature.
1993 Thanks to Manfred Winter for this suggestion.
1995 -Improved indentation of nested parenthesized expressions. Tests have
1996 given favorable results. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful
2000 -Fixed a very rare problem in which an unwanted semicolon was inserted
2001 due to misidentification of anonymous hash reference curly as a code
2002 block curly. (No instances of this have been reported; I discovered it
2003 during testing). A workaround for older versions of perltidy is to use
2006 -Added -icb (-indent-closing-brace) parameter to indent a brace which
2007 terminates a code block to the same level as the previous line.
2008 Suggested by Andrew Cutler. For example,
2017 -Rewrote error message triggered by an unknown bareword in a print or
2018 printf filehandle position, and added flag -w=0 to prevent issuing this
2019 error message. Suggested by Byron Jones.
2021 -Added modification to align a one-line 'if' block with similar
2022 following 'elsif' one-line blocks, like this:
2023 if ( $something eq "simple" ) { &handle_simple }
2024 elsif ( $something eq "hard" ) { &handle_hard }
2025 (Suggested by Wolfgang Weisselberg).
2028 -Eliminated all constants with leading underscores because perl 5.005_03
2029 does not support that. For example, _SPACES changed to XX_SPACES.
2030 Thanks to kromJx for this update.
2033 -the directory of test files has been moved to a separate distribution
2034 file because it is getting large but is of little interest to most users.
2035 For the current distribution:
2036 perltidy-20010701.tgz contains the source and docs for perltidy
2037 perltidy-20010701-test.tgz contains the test files
2039 -fixed bug where temporary file perltidy.TMPI was not being deleted
2040 when input was from stdin.
2042 -adjusted line break logic to not break after closing brace of an
2043 eval block (suggested by Boris Zentner).
2045 -added flag -gnu (--gnu-style) to give an approximation to the GNU
2046 style as sometimes applied to perl. The programming style in GNU
2047 'automake' was used as a guide in setting the parameters; these
2048 parameters will probably be adjusted over time.
2050 -an empty code block now has one space for emphasis:
2051 if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) {} # old
2052 if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) { } # new
2053 If this bothers anyone, we could create a parameter.
2055 -the -bt (--brace-tightness) parameter has been split into two
2056 parameters to give more control. -bt now applies only to non-BLOCK
2057 braces, while a new parameter -bbt (block-brace-tightness) applies to
2058 curly braces which contain code BLOCKS. The default value is -bbt=0.
2060 -added flag -icp (--indent-closing-paren) which leaves a statment
2061 termination of the form );, };, or ]; indented with the same
2062 indentation as the previous line. For example,
2064 @month_of_year = ( # default, or -nicp
2065 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct',
2069 @month_of_year = ( # -icp
2070 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct',
2074 -Vertical alignment updated to synchronize with tokens &&, ||,
2075 and, or, if, unless. Allowable space before forcing
2076 resynchronization has been increased. (Suggested by Wolfgang
2079 -html corrected to use -nohtml-bold-xxxxxxx or -nhbx to negate bold,
2080 and likewise -nohtml-italic-xxxxxxx or -nhbi to negate italic. There
2081 was no way to negate these previously. html documentation updated and
2082 corrected. (Suggested by Wolfgang Weisselberg).
2084 -Some modifications have been made which improve the -lp formatting in
2087 -Perltidy now retains or creates a blank line after an =cut to keep
2088 podchecker happy (Suggested by Manfred H. Winter). This appears to be
2089 a glitch in podchecker, but it was annoying.
2092 -Added -bli flag to give continuation indentation to braces, like this
2096 extra_indentation();
2099 -Corrected an error with the tab (-t) option which caused the last line
2100 of a multi-line quote to receive a leading tab. This error was in
2101 version 2001 06 08 but not 2001 04 06. If you formatted a script
2102 with -t with this version, please check it by running once with the
2103 -chk flag and perltidy will scan for this possible error.
2105 -Corrected an invalid pattern (\R should have been just R), changed
2106 $^W =1 to BEGIN {$^W=1} to use warnings in compile phase, and corrected
2107 several unnecessary 'my' declarations. Many thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg,
2108 2001-06-12, for catching these errors.
2110 -A '-bar' flag has been added to require braces to always be on the
2111 right, even for multi-line if and foreach statements. For example,
2112 the default formatting of a long if statement would be:
2114 if ($bigwasteofspace1 && $bigwasteofspace2
2115 || $bigwasteofspace3 && $bigwasteofspace4)
2120 With -bar, the formatting is:
2122 if ($bigwasteofspace1 && $bigwasteofspace2
2123 || $bigwasteofspace3 && $bigwasteofspace4) {
2126 Suggested by Eli Fidler 2001-06-11.
2128 -Uploaded perltidy to sourceforge cvs 2001-06-10.
2130 -An '-lp' flag (--line-up-parentheses) has been added which causes lists
2131 to be indented with extra indentation in the manner sometimes
2132 associated with emacs or the GNU suggestions. Thanks to Ian Stuart for
2133 this suggestion and for extensive help in testing it.
2135 -Subroutine call parameter lists are now formatted as other lists.
2136 This should improve formatting of tables being passed via subroutine
2137 calls. This will also cause full indentation ('-i=n, default n= 4) of
2138 continued parameter list lines rather than just the number of spaces
2139 given with -ci=n, default n=2.
2141 -Added support for hanging side comments. Perltidy identifies a hanging
2142 side comment as a comment immediately following a line with a side
2143 comment or another hanging side comment. This should work in most
2144 cases. It can be deactivated with --no-hanging-side-comments (-nhsc).
2145 The manual has been updated to discuss this. Suggested by Brad
2146 Eisenberg some time ago, and finally implemented.
2149 -fixed problem with parsing command parameters containing quoted
2150 strings in .perltidyrc files. (Reported by Roger Espel Llima 2001-06-07).
2152 -added two command line flags, --want-break-after and
2153 --want-break-before, which allow changing whether perltidy
2154 breaks lines before or after any operators. Please see the revised
2155 man pages for details.
2157 -added system-wide configuration file capability.
2158 If perltidy does not find a .perltidyrc command line file in
2159 the current directory, nor in the home directory, it now looks
2160 for '/usr/local/etc/perltidyrc' and then for '/etc/perltidyrc'.
2161 (Suggested by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-31).
2163 -fixed problem in which spaces were trimmed from lines of a multi-line
2164 quote. (Reported by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-30). This is an
2165 uncommon situation, but serious, because it could conceivably change
2166 the proper function of a script.
2168 -fixed problem in which a semicolon was incorrectly added within
2169 an anonymous hash. (Reported by A.C. Yardley, 2001-5-23).
2170 (You would know if this happened, because perl would give a syntax
2171 error for the resulting script).
2173 -fixed problem in which an incorrect error message was produced
2174 after a version number on a 'use' line, like this ( Reported
2175 by Andres Kroonmaa, 2001-5-14):
2177 use CGI 2.42 qw(fatalsToBrowser);
2179 Other than the extraneous error message, this bug was harmless.
2182 -fixed serious bug in which the last line of some multi-line quotes or
2183 patterns was given continuation indentation spaces. This may make
2184 a pattern incorrect unless it uses the /x modifier. To find
2185 instances of this error in scripts which have been formatted with
2186 earlier versions of perltidy, run with the -chk flag, which has
2187 been added for this purpose (SLH, 2001-04-05).
2189 ** So, please check previously formatted scripts by running with -chk
2192 -continuation indentation has been reprogrammed to be hierarchical,
2193 which improves deeply nested structures.
2195 -fixed problem with undefined value in list formatting (reported by Michael
2198 -Switched to graphical display of nesting in .LOG files. If an
2199 old format string was "(1 [0 {2", the new string is "{{(". This
2200 is easier to read and also shows the order of nesting.
2202 -added outdenting of cuddled paren structures, like ")->pack(".
2204 -added line break and outdenting of ')->' so that instead of
2207 -text => "perltidy",
2208 -relief => 'ridge')->pack;
2210 the current default is:
2213 -text => "perltidy",
2217 (requested by Michael Langner 2001-03-31; in the future this could
2218 be controlled by a command-line parameter).
2220 -revised list indentation logic, so that lists following an assignment
2221 operator get one full indentation level, rather than just continuation
2222 indentation. Also corrected some minor glitches in the continuation
2225 -Fixed problem with unwanted continuation indentation after a blank line
2226 (reported by Erik Thaysen 2001-03-28):
2228 -minor update to avoid stranding a single '(' on one line
2231 -corrected serious error tokenizing filehandles, in which a sub call
2232 after a print or printf, like this:
2233 print usage() and exit;
2235 print usage () and exit;
2236 Unfortunately, this converts 'usage' to a filehandle. To fix this, rerun
2237 perltidy; it will look for this situation and issue a warning.
2239 -fixed another cuddled-else formatting bug (Reported by Craig Bourne)
2241 -added several diagnostic --dump routines
2243 -added token-level whitespace controls (suggested by Hans Ecke)
2246 -added support for special variables of the form ${^WANT_BITS}
2248 -space added between scalar and left paren in 'for' and 'foreach' loops,
2249 (suggestion by Michael Cartmell):
2251 for $i( 1 .. 20 ) # old
2252 for $i ( 1 .. 20 ) # new
2254 -html now outputs cascading style sheets (thanks to suggestion from
2257 -flags -o and -st now work with -html
2259 -added missing -html documentation for comments (noted by Alex Izvorski)
2261 -support for VMS added (thanks to Michael Cartmell for code patches and
2264 -v-strings implemented (noted by Hans Ecke and Michael Cartmell; extensive
2265 testing by Michael Cartmell)
2267 -fixed problem where operand may be empty at line 3970
2268 (\b should be just b in lines 3970, 3973) (Thanks to Erik Thaysen,
2269 Keith Marshall for bug reports)
2271 -fixed -ce bug (cuddled else), where lines like '} else {' were indented
2272 (Thanks to Shawn Stepper and Rick Measham for reporting this)
2275 -fixed undefined value in line 153 (only worked with -I set)
2276 (Thanks to Mike Stok, Phantom of the Opcodes, Ian Ehrenwald, and others)
2278 -fixed undefined value in line 1069 (filehandle problem with perl versions <
2279 5.6) (Thanks to Yuri Leikind, Mike Stok, Michael Holve, Jeff Kolber)
2282 -Initial announcement at freshmeat.net; started Change Log
2283 (Unfortunately this version was DOA, but it was fixed the next day)