[Interest] 80 column enforcement under Linux

[Furkan Üzümcü]

I’m not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for but astyle has a max-code-length option you can use. It does the job for me.

http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html#_max-code-length

Regards,
Furkan Üzümcü
On Jan 18, 2019, 17:53 -0500, roland at logikalsolutions.com, wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback gentleman.
>
> I was unaware Artistic Style is dead. Haven't found a line length
> thing in it anyway. I am using Artistic Style for formatting because
> the default QtCreator coding style and a project level .astylerc of
> this:
>
> # If you have astyle installed on your Linux development machine and
> # you have enabled it via Beautifier plug-in then this file will control
> # how the beautifier formats the code.
>
> --style=allman
> --indent=spaces=4
> --add-braces
> --convert-tabs
> --keep-one-line-statements
>
> along with a keyboard shortcut of <ALT><Shift><F> gets me the bulk of
> the way there. I have to manually view the ruler and fix which is fine
> since I'm merging multiple "test" projects into something usable, but,
> the "official" requirement states "an automated tool." Might see if we
> can get overrides for that.
>
> Quoting Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com>:
>
> > On 18/01/2019 13.54, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > > I would think that clang-format should be able to help you out with
> > > this. It is part of the LLVM download.
> >
> > Ugh... clang-format...
> >
> > Be warned: clang-format's version of line length enforcement is *very*
> > draconian. There is exactly one, and *only* one way to wrap a line (for
> > a given configuration, anyway¹). If you try to wrap a line differently,
> > because it improves readability... that's wrong, and clang-format will
> > "fix" it for you.
> >
> > I can't recommend astyle, since it is basically dead, but please do
> > yourself a favor and also look at uncrustify, which is active and can be
> > configured to be far less rigid than clang-format while still enforcing
> > a line length limit.
> >
> > (¹ Basically, clang-format supports "one item per line", "greedy", and
> > nothing in between². You can choose between them, but only globally, not
> > on a per-case basis.)
> >
> > (² Pedantically, it also supports "leave it alone", but only if you turn
> > off line length enforcement, so that doesn't help you.)
> >
> > --
> > Matthew
>
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