Nim: nimpretty status?

[timotheecour]

I'm looking for a tool like D's dfmt --inplace or gofmt to format code.
I found nimpretty but couldn't find much information on it;
it's not installed via brew install nim (which installs nim and nimble and nimgrep) which makes me think it's not ready yet.

just found these links:

• video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV38gQfcb9c
• https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1255 (which mentioned smthg about presumably an older tool: There was the nim pretty command, but it had enough problems that it was deprecated/removed)
• commit msg says: some progress on the nimpretty tool; still not ready

so is that feature planned, what works/doesn't?

also, shouldn't dedicated github issue project be used for project specific things such as nimpretty? (eg there's no existing label nimpretty)

[dom96]

also, shouldn't dedicated github issue project be used for project specific things such as nimpretty? (eg there's no existing label nimpretty)

Yep, and a dedicated repo for the project should be made too. @Araq prefers to keep things in the Nim repo though :/

[Araq]

so is that feature planned, what works/doesn't?

Planned and the biggest blocking issue is still comment handling. Once that is solved, I will run it on every .nim file I can get my hands on and try to get it into production quality.

[dom96]

Will you also move it into a Nimble repo to make contribution easier?

[GULPF]

@dom96 nimpretty is baked into the compiler, so I doubt that's possible. All the work is done by compiler/parser and compiler/renderer.

[data-man]

@GULPF
c2nim also depends from the compiler's modules, but can be installed using Nimble.
So I don't think that this is a problem.

[Araq]

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