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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm afraid automatic "prettifiers" are a terrible idea because blindly
restyling the code usually makes it lose any remains of readability it used
to have. In other words, automatically restyled code is even less readable
than code with a foreign coding style.


2013/3/31 David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I wrote this in order to check for code style errors, but it's not perfect
> it's just a help-tool:
>
> https://github.com/elementary/vala-analyzer
>
> We have 'considered' using a prettifier too, but I just use Emacs to fix
> some stuff on my code - a prettifier script would be too much work and I
> don't know of any libraries that would help me with the task.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Good work David. Have you (elementary) considered using a prettifier to
>> standardize a code style upon pushing to your trunk?
>>  On Mar 28, 2013 7:17 PM, "Cody Garver" <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Cool, it's pretty thorough.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19899464/reviewstutorial.html
>>>>
>>>> Hello guys,
>>>>
>>>> From time to time somebody still has doubts on how to use Launchpad and
>>>> Bazaar to review and merge branches to trunk so I wrote a tutorial. Note
>>>> though that it may need expansion.
>>>>
>>>> Many times, even experienced developers who have been in the Apps Team
>>>> for a long time make mistakes so even if you already know how to do it,
>>>> reading the tutorial won't hurt.
>>>>
>>>> I also recommend that all developers that in the future are to join the
>>>> Apps Team read this several times because even though we can always revert
>>>> messed-up commits, it's better to do it right at the first time.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes
>>>>
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
OS architect @ elementary