Atom-beautify: Beautify/Uncrustify always indents 8 spaces instead of 4

[prospecs]

In Atom, I have my current editor settings set up so my tab length is set to 4 spaces.

However, after installing Atom-Beautify and Uncrustify, the package indents with a tab length of 8 spaces (or it might just be 2 tabs of 4).

I want to universally make my tab length of 4 at all times for any given file. I tried changing the indent size in ~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/.jsbeautifyrc many times, but I still get a tab length of 8 when I beautify a file.

It is initially set as "indent_size": 2, but no matter the numerical value, I still get a tab length of 8.

How can I fix this issue?

[stevenzeck]

What type of file are you trying to format and which beautifier are you using? Can you run the Atom Beautify Debug command against that file and copy/paste the lines Platform through Selected Beautifier (lines 20-40 roughly)? Should look something like this:

**Platform**: darwin

## Versions

**Atom Version**: 1.23.3

**Atom Beautify Version**: 0.30.9

## Original file to be beautified

**Original File Path**: `undefined`

**Original File Grammar**: HTML

**Original File Language**: HTML

**Language namespace**: html

**Supported Beautifiers**: JS Beautify, Pretty Diff

**Selected Beautifier**: JS Beautify

[prospecs]

```# Atom Beautify - Debugging information

The following debugging information was generated by Atom Beautify on Fri Jan 26 2018 17:23:13 GMT-0500 (EST).

---

Table Of Contents

• Versions
• Original file to be beautified
  
  
  
  • Original File Contents
  
  
  • Package Settings
  
  
• Beautification options
  
  
  
  • Final Options
  
  
• Results
  
  
  
  • Logs
  
  

---

Platform: darwin

Versions

Atom Version: 1.23.3

Atom Beautify Version: 0.30.9

Original file to be beautified

Original File Path:

Original File Grammar: C++

Original File Language: C++

Language namespace: cpp

Supported Beautifiers: Uncrustify, clang-format

Selected Beautifier: Uncrustify
```

This is my second time installing Atom and Atom-Beautify again. I never ran into an issue during my first installation but after some update, I was unable to use Atom-Beautify until I installed Uncrustify. Maybe that's the issue?

[stevenzeck]

In order to format C++ files, you need to have either Uncrustify or clang-format installed. If you use the latter, you also have to change the default beautifier to it in atom beautify's settings for C++. Maybe you were formatting other types of files before and that's why you didn't have an issue?

But I don't think . jsbeautifyrc config files have any effect on Uncrustify or C++ files, Uncrustify only supports a .cfg file. If you're using one, you would see it in Atom Beautify's Settings -> C++ in the Config Path field. If you are using one, it's there where you need to change indent size.

I also searched through old issues and found https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/issues/682#issuecomment-297772369, if you're on a Unix that may be worth a try.

[prospecs]

What's confusing is that I'm using JS Beautify for HTML and indents to 4 spaces (1 tab), but the .jsbeautifyrc config file in /atom-beautify/src/ is defaulted to an indent size of 2.

And for C++, I've changed the .cfg file multiple times but it doesn't have any effect, either.

I don't remember going through such a tedious process before, especially installing Uncrustify or clang-format (I installed Uncrustify only recently).

[Glavin001]

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[Kailash23]

if you want to change the tab width from 8(Unix default) to 4:

$ atom ~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg
(You can find deafult.cfg by going to atom-beautify settings and then click view code )

output_tab_size = 4 # (edit about line 14)
indent_columns = 4 # (edit about line 42)

then change path of the C and C++ setting of atom-beautify:
~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg

+

comment out the align_number_left

(in default.cfg , otherwise it will give an error)

[petermirmo]

@Kailash23 You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

[AlexMarshaall]

I've set the output_tab_size and the indent_columns size to 2 but uncrustify still indents 8 spaces each time. Can you explain what you mean when you say "change path of C and C++..."? I'm editing a java file and in the beautify settings my java beautifier is set to uncrustify.

[Kailash23]

Just below the 'Default Beautifier', that you set to 'uncrustify'. There is a field named 'Config Path' just paste this in that field -
~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg

[AlexMarshaall]

Thanks man, that's fixed my indent problem :), didn't realise it was just below haha

[YakovlevKonstantin]

I wrote ~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg
But permission denied

[Kailash23]

@YakovlevKonstantin Still showing permission denied?

[Nabagata]

@Kailash23 I'm getting these errors

/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:103 Unknown symbol 'indent_ctor_init_leading'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:120 Unknown symbol 'indent_func_def_force_col1'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:218 Unknown symbol 'indent_oc_block'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:222 Unknown symbol 'indent_oc_block_msg'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:225 Unknown symbol 'indent_oc_msg_colon'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:238 Unknown symbol 'sp_cpp_lambda_assign'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:241 Unknown symbol 'sp_cpp_lambda_paren'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:268 Unknown symbol 'sp_before_pp_stringify'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:305 Unknown symbol 'sp_ptr_star_paren'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:330 Unknown symbol 'sp_before_template_paren'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:356 Unknown symbol 'sp_permit_cpp11_shift'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:368 Unknown symbol 'sp_inside_sparen_open'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:483 Unknown symbol 'sp_inside_tparen'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:486 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_tparen_close'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:521 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_throw'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:616 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_oc_dict_colon'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:620 Unknown symbol 'sp_before_oc_dict_colon'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:662 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_oc_msg_receiver'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:665 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_oc_property'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:680 Unknown symbol 'sp_after_for_colon'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:683 Unknown symbol 'sp_before_for_colon'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:686 Unknown symbol 'sp_extern_paren'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:704 Unknown symbol 'sp_annotation_paren'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:851 Unknown symbol 'align_pp_define_together'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:866 Unknown symbol 'align_oc_msg_colon_first'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:897 Unknown symbol 'nl_oc_msg_leave_one_liner'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:926 Unknown symbol 'nl_typedef_blk_start'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:930 Unknown symbol 'nl_typedef_blk_end'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:934 Unknown symbol 'nl_typedef_blk_in'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:938 Unknown symbol 'nl_var_def_blk_start'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:942 Unknown symbol 'nl_var_def_blk_end'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:946 Unknown symbol 'nl_var_def_blk_in'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1002 Unknown symbol 'nl_scope_brace'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1005 Unknown symbol 'nl_unittest_brace'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1008 Unknown symbol 'nl_version_brace'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1115 Unknown symbol 'nl_oc_msg_args'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1152 Unknown symbol 'nl_brace_struct_var'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1256 Unknown symbol 'ls_code_width'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1339 Unknown symbol 'nl_remove_extra_newlines'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1342 Unknown symbol 'nl_before_return'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1349 Unknown symbol 'nl_after_annotation'
/home/nabagata/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg:1352 Unknown symbol 'nl_between_annotation'
Parsing: input119225-672-1ffwuf5.1rnr.cpp as language CPP

[fangzhou-xie]

if you want to change the tab width from 8(Unix default) to 4:

$ atom ~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg
(You can find deafult.cfg by going to atom-beautify settings and then click view code )

output_tab_size = 4 # (edit about line 14)
indent_columns = 4 # (edit about line 42)

then change path of the C and C++ setting of atom-beautify:
~/.atom/packages/atom-beautify/src/beautifiers/uncrustify/default.cfg

+

comment out the align_number_left

(in default.cfg , otherwise it will give an error)

You are so awesome! It works! Thank you so much!