On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 12:57, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> hi all-
> 
> i've got a perl script with quite a bit of code.  i had to add a few 
> more 'if/else' statements, and instead of manually tabbing everything 
> over (puts ease on my eyes), i was wondering if there was a program 
> and/or script that anyone knows of that might automagically do this for 
> me (scan through the code and tab it according to its structure)?  i've 
> seen programs that format HTML quite efficiently (html tidy, i think it 
> was called), but i haven't really looked for anything else.


Hi Douglas,

In Emacs, selecting a region followed by the command:

  ESC-x indent-region

will do what you want.  And recent versions of Emacs have a nifty
point-and-click menu (Options --> Customize Emacs) that you can use to
customize the indentation system to suit your style.

Ed

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