Re: [PATCH] scripts/Lindent: clean up and optimize

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2016-08-07 at 17:48 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 10:53:19 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 11:26 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Add a few blank lines to improve readability.
> > > * Don't call cut 3 times when once is enough.
> > > * Drop a useless semicolon.
> > As it commonly reflows > 80 column code very badly,
> > my preference would be to remove Lindent instead.
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/11/390
> This was 3.5 years ago, so apparently it's not happening.
>
> Why don't you just remove -l80 from the options, if this is your only
> concern with the script?

line length is not context aware and you'd get > 256
column lines in a lot of cases.

>  Adding the appropriate option to indent to
> support what we think is good would seem even better, but I do not have
> any time to devote to this task.

Nor does anyone else.
indent has had 1 change in 14 years.

clang-format might be a better tool and a better
suggestion than Lindent now.