Re: Cabal File Pretty Printer

+1 on changing the format. Picking a specific format is bound to annoy some people, but I don't think anyone prefers the current one. The last option mentioned looks the best to me. - Adam On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Erik Hesselink wrote:

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Tillmann Rendel wrote:

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1. change `cabal init` to use the pretty printer. 2. expose the pretty printer at the command line.

Agreed on both points. We should add (2) as `cabal format` (similar to go-fmt) or something like that.

I would love to have this, it would make editing cabal files with tools much more appealing. What would be ideal would be a way to edit the files while preserving whitespace. But I know from haskell-src-exts that this is a very tricky thing to get right.

Regards,

Erik _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel