I've also used uncrustify for c/c++.  Of course this plays hell with
revision control.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 6:29 PM Juan Nunez-Iglesias <j...@fastmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 15 Nov 2021, at 8:23 am, Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, at 09:13, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> The black formatter is much improved in its latest version and I think good 
> enough to start using. The main drawbacks that I see are:
>
> all operators, including '*' and '/',  get spaces around them,
> very long strings are not broken into multiple lines,
> lists, tuples, and function signatures are either on one line, or broken into 
> multiple lines of one element/argument each,
> the formatting of extended logical expressions could be improved to emphasize 
> the priority of 'and' over 'or' operators
>
>
> We've also been having a conversation around mathematical formatting here: 
> https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/how-to-format-mathematical-expressions/62/8
>
> I tried yapf recently, and was pleased with the output.  One concern about 
> yapf was that it has many configuration options: but the only important thing 
> is that you fix the knobs, then you simply have a different version of black.
>
>
> In my experience, while none of these tools are perfect, not having to have 
> discussions around formatting is completely worth it!
>
>
> +1 on everything Stéfan said. I never liked black’s formatting, but I have 
> *absolutely* appreciated having zero discussions/push commits/code 
> suggestions to deal with formatting in napari. I have since added yapf to my 
> own repos with a config I like *and* added yapf auto-formatting-on-save to my 
> VSCode, and I don’t even have to have formatting discussions with *myself* 
> anymore. 😂 It’s very liberating!
>
> For reference, here’s my yapf config:
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> https://github.com/jni/skan/blob/74507344b4cd4453cc43b4dbd0b5742fc08eb5a0/.style.yapf
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> As Stéfan said, fix the knobs (yours might be different), then forget about 
> it!
>
> Oh, and yes, yapf does allow formatting only the diff. I agree that 
> reformatting the entire code base is problematic.
>
> Juan.
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