[ale] C++ indent/beautifier

[Pete Hardie]

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Around here we use astyle (http://sourceforge.net/projects/astyle). It
> ain't too terribly sophisticated or nothin', but it seems to Do The Job
> on Java and C.  It's written in C++ and claims to handle that language
> as well.  
> 
> The controls are pretty crude. For example, you get a choice of three
> ways to handle brackets but you can't actually create a brand-new way
> (the best of the three ways only approximates what I 
> really want to see).  
> 
> If you can get it to do what you want, it seems reliable. At least it
> hasn't mangled any of the Java source I've thrown at it. It's GPLed,
> so if  you are ambitious you could probably code up a proper
> configuration language for it.

Thanks, I'll give it a look.

BTW, does anyone else think it ironic that the source code for indent has not 
been run through indent?

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