Formatter

[raymono]

What is the best formatter to use for pascal source files (from the command line)?

Tried GNU Indent and atype and they give garbled output ...

[dsiders]

What is the best formatter to use for pascal source files (from the command line)?

Tried GNU Indent and atype and they give garbled output ...

FPC provides ptop. Have you tried it?

https://www.freepascal.org/tools/ptop.html

[raymono]

Thanks for the quick reply - surprised this forums is so relatively busy.

ptop seems to do the job.

[DomingoGP]

Lazarus also offers the command line version of the Jedi code format if you want to try it.

It is required to build the program from
lazarus/components/jcf2/CommandLine/Lazarus/jcf.lpr

[raymono]

Thanks - will check.

Regarding ptop, seems to work with valid programs - went into an infinite output generating loop with an invalid program...

[Roland57]

Hello! You could also try this one.

[dsiders]

Hello! You could also try this one.

Looks interesting. I'd like to try it if I can clear som things off my to-do list.