It would be awesome if Xcode exposed per-file or per-project formatting
settings, and could enforce them in the editor. I hope someone from the dev
tools group will be able to comment (and help guide the implementation of
this) if there are plans for such a feature.

Jacob

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

> I would love to see flexible formatting styles be more easily available
> like this.
>
> -Shawn
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM Daniel Martín <swift-evolution@swift.org>
> wrote:
>
>> As Swift is getting traction in more and more platforms outside of
>> Apple, we can expect that many coding styles different from what Apple
>> imposes with SourceKit's indenting rules will emerge. According to
>> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-146, we now have decoupled indenting
>> logic from SourceKit into its own library, and a "swift-format" tool is
>> in the making.
>>
>> I am working on adding support for different coding styles to libIDE.
>> For example, with my changes you could decide how a case label should be
>> indented with respect to its parent switch context, among other things.
>> The current, hard coded indenting decisions in libIDE could be named the
>> "Apple" style, just like Clang supports Google, LLVM, Mozilla, coding
>> styles for C++. Also, this is something that can be supported by
>> external tools like Xcode quite easily.
>>
>> Do you think this is a good feature to have?
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Martín
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