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From: luke@mtuno.ATT.COM (s.l.jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: C++ beautifier
Keywords: C++, ansi, PD/freeware
Message-ID: <2774@mtuno.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:54:31 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Does anybody out there have a C++ beautifier like the UNIX cb(1)
program?  I'm especially interested in something that can hack
function headers like

	int main( int argc, char **argv ) {
		printf( "hello, world\n" ); 
	}

which, as you can see, is not even (necessarily) C++, but plain
vanilla ANSI C.

I don't want it bad enough to pay any money, but I promise to use
it a lot.  (I need source, since I'd use it on both UNIX and DOS.)

Ideally, this cb++ should offer all sorts of customizations.  I want
to use it to coerce other peoples code, since :-) my coding style is
already ideal.  I'd like to be able to control how it treats comments,
(including the // kind), whether spaces go inside or outside parens,
or neither, or both, where the curly braces go (of course), and how
to indent run-on expressions like
	if( condition1 && condition2 && condition3
	    && condition4 && condition5 )
		// also where to indent the line after that beast
It should also offer the choice of whether to use tabs, and, if so,
what width they should represent.

And so forth....generally speaking, the more the merrier.  It should
be so complex it has to have its own .rc file :-).

Send a man page too.  Thanks in advance.
Luke Jones
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