On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:11:18 +0100, Joshua Landau <jos...@landau.ws> wrote:
On 30 July 2013 00:08, Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I'm working on some shonky C code at the moment that inconsistent
indentation and very long lines. It is extremely annoying not to be
able to put the original code, my "translation" and sundry utilities
all side-by-side on the same screen (and it's not a particularly
small screen), and having to keep flipping between them slows me
down dramatically. Long lines have no effect on the speed of the
program, but they can have serious effects on the speed of the
programmer.
Then just wrap it. This is a very automatable thing for editors. There
might even be a clever hard-wrap somewhere. I just tried pyformat -- that
works wonders.
I tried that at first, but it actually made matters worse. "Simple"
word-wrapping just broke the structural cues from indentation (which I'd
already had to instruct my editor to make at least somewhat consistent).
I couldn't just take in the code layout at a glance, I had to work at it.
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