Pietro, Yes, recall the old joke that on airplanes emacs users had to sit on the left side and vi users had to sit on the right side! I've used both emacs and vi in my time, so no flames here.
Dave David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM Paul Wisehart <p...@oldcode.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 02:20:17PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote: > > I just use emacs formatting. It has formatters for most languages and I > > have used it on all three that you mention, Clang, Golang, and Python, as > > well as shell scripts. Maybe there are better formatters out there, but > > emacs formatters work fine for me. Of course, if you use vi (or some > other > > editor) you are out of luck! > > Thanks!, Yes I should have mentioned I use vi. > I pipe the buffer to an external filter like gofmt, black, and/or indent. > I also like this because then you can use it in a commit-hook outside > of the editor. > > You can also do it in emacs with 'shell-command-on-region. > I have used emacs as a filter to indent lisp code, I suppose > I could do the same thing for C code... > > https://codeberg.org/pkw/emacs-scripts/src/branch/main/indent-filter.el > > -- > Paul Wisehart > > >
