Perltidy TODO List
- This is a "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.
+
+ Provide an option to ignore side comments when checking line length.
+ That is, side comments would be allowed to be arbitrarily long without
+ influencing line breaks.
Improved Vertical Alignment
- There are many opportunities for improving vertical alignment.
+ There are still many opportunities for improving vertical alignment.
- improved ?: formatting
- An indentation level should be associated with ?: statements. This will
- make nested ?: statements more readable.
+ Minimize the instances in which formatting changes on a second iteration.
- Recursive file processing
- A -r flag might be nice.
+ Add a convergence test when -it=n is used
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.
+Things which have been suggested but will not be done
+ Recursive file processing
+ A -r flag might be nice, but this is best handled by an exterior shell
+ script.
+
+ Make perltidy support the syntax of some module XXX.
+ This generally won't be done unless the module is part of the core perl
+ distribution. But in some cases it might be possible to use the prefilter
+ and postfilter capabilities of the Tidy.pm module to help.