On Friday, January 25, 2013 3:36:21 AM UTC+1, Sung Pae wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 08:45:45AM -0800, Chiel92 wrote:
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> > Is there any progression on this subject? I'm currently writing a code
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> > format plugin, which heavily relies on this issue.
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> While I hesitate to campaign against my own patch, I think a _code_
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> formatting plugin should either use 'formatexpr' or provide it's own
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> functionality for the gq command. I don't know the specifics of your
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> plugin of course, so this is certainly not an absolute maxim.
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> 'formatprg' is meant to be a replacement for the default internal
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> formatter used by the gq command (and always by gw), which is used
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> primarily for editing prose, not code.
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> That said, I still stand behind my argument for switching 'formatprg' to
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> a buffer-local option and have been happily using it in my own build of
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> Vim without issue.
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>     Sung Pae

The plugin I'm talking about can be found right here: 
https://github.com/Chiel92/vim-autoformat
I thought that it was a good idea to utilize formatprg, since it looks like it 
exists for this one purpose: to format text using an external application, 
whatever the text maybe. Why do you think formatexpr should be used for this 
instead?

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