[besson3c]

Does anybody know how to get BBEdit to automatically create indents in a document of source code to indicate the beginning and ending of a function? I know that emacs does this, but I'm sure there must be a way to do this in BBEdit too....

Anybody?

[madmacgames]

I've never used emacs, so I'm not really sure what exactly you're asking... But BBEdit has an auto-indent option, that for example if the line you are on is indented 5 tabs, pressing enter will take you to the next line, pre-indented 5 tabs. I'm not sure if this is what you mean or not.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by madmacgames

I've never used emacs, so I'm not really sure what exactly you're asking... But BBEdit has an auto-indent option, that for example if the line you are on is indented 5 tabs, pressing enter will take you to the next line, pre-indented 5 tabs. I'm not sure if this is what you mean or not.

Not exactly.. what I"m looking for is a feature that will take a document like this:

[php]
myfunction () {
for ($x=0; $x < 20; $x++) {
print "hello";
}
}
[/php]

and transform it to:

[php]
myfunction () {
for ($x=0; $x < 20; $x++) {
print "hello";
}
}
[/php]

[kimojohnson]

I don't think BBEdit supports syntax-aware indenting, at least I never figured out how to do it. But then, I haven't used the latest version of BBEdit since I switched to TextWrangler when became free.

One thing you could do is write a perl or python script that does it. BBEdit allows scripts to be run on the current selection or the entire file and it pastes the script's output back to the file.

[ReggieX]

Other than checking the "auto indent" checkbox?


Or does that not do what you're after?

[madmacgames]

>> Or does that not do what you're after?

No, it doesn't, though I don't really see why not having the feature would be a problem if you indent while coding, which most people do.

The only time I could see maybe needing it would be if you downloaded a PHP file that the programmer did not indent, which in my 3+ years of working with PHP has been never.

[ReggieX]

OK, I missed an important detail in besson's post above

Sounds like you want Tidy, which can be had in many flavours:
http://www.geocities.com/terry_teague/tidy.html
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
http://www.coggeshall.org/oss/tidy/

[kidtexas]

BBEdit has tidy built in. Not sure what kind of code you can run it on other than HTML/XML.