indentation bear about coala-bears

[sils]

depends on #250

[sils]

#250 is in review and work can be build upon that

[sils]

similar to our matlabindentationbear

[sils]

see https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala/blob/master/bears/matlab/MatlabIndentationBear.py for initial approach, something like that could work well for basic indentation checking. We then need to add things like correct bracket positions and stuff like that, should be possible.

[sils]

From @AbdealiJK on February 16, 2016 11:46

@sils1297 why not use a language specific linter in such cases ? Writing your own logic is tiresome and not required IMO
Like indent for C languages
PEP8 does this for python
PHP lint does it for php
etc etc

[sils]

because having one indentation engine that is usable for lots of languages
would be awesome, remember the goal of coala is not to just wrap linters
but also allow creation of new routines for new languages. That also makes
it very easy to at least provide some basic indentation support for
whatever languages users demand.

2016-02-16 12:46 GMT+01:00 AbdealiJK [email protected]:

@sils1297 https://github.com/sils1297 why not use a language specific
linter in such cases ? Writing your own logic is tiresome and not required
IMO
Like indent for C languages

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From @Makman2 on February 16, 2016 17:36

agreeing with @sils1297. Even though we focus on providing functionality by implementing linters, self-written bears need utilities for code-analysis :)

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From @Redridge on February 18, 2016 18:31

As @sils1297 said, this requires much more planning than I initially thought. I say better leave it for now.

[sils]

Can you share your experiences and drafts so we can build on it the next
time?

2016-02-18 19:31 GMT+01:00 Alexandros Dimos [email protected]:

As @sils1297 https://github.com/sils1297 said, this requires much more
planning than I initially thought. I say better leave it for now.

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From @abhsag24 on February 21, 2016 12:21

decisions:

1. will take indent_types , and comments as dict parameters , where the key is a start_indent and value is an end_indent , for comments the key and value pair are useful for multi-line comments, where key can be start of comment and value the end.
2. Languages like python can have end_indent as None.
3. Basic structure to be initially like MatlabIndentationBear but i do believe it will be totally different by the final version.

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From @Redridge on February 21, 2016 13:5

Here is my draft from when I tried it.
https://github.com/Redridge/coala/commit/ca8df0cbdb2e885d77e948a838386c9e3eed0da4

It is able to:

• Get the dict out of .coalang files using LanguageDefinition
• Indent C files without comments or missleading strings (with ';', '{', '}' int them)

I don't know if it is of much help though