I am happy owner of an old Version OREGON PASCAL Compiler (running under Unix 68...), who has also a splendid Beautifier included.

With this excellent tool is it possible to get a very clear output of the printed .pas Programme Especially are the begin and end signs in such a manner arranged so that errors can be very easily found.

Is there any plan to create such a very helpful tool???

By the way the price for a.m Compiler+ Beautifier was ca.5000.- DM in 1986! Kind regards G.W.Herbold

G.W. Herbold wrote

Is there any plan to create such a very helpful tool???

FPC comes with the "ptop" tool that can be used to format/beatify your code. The Lazarus IDE (http://www.lazarus-ide.org ) also comes with a built-in code formatter.

Jonas

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G.W. Herbold wrote

Is there any plan to create such a very helpful tool???

As Jonas mentioned, there is "ptop" included with FPC. I've had some good usage of it in the past, but I don't know how much development it still receives (I should check the commit history).

Also, as mentioned, Lazarus includes a code formatter too. It is in fact a copy of the Jedi Code Formatter, found on SourceForge.net. If you don't use Lazarus, you can download JCF as a stand-alone tool from SourceForge [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedicodeformat/]. The nice think about the stand-alone version is that they include three executables. Two GUI's (useful for configuring the formatter) and a command line tool. For years I have been using the command line tool (even under Linux and FreeBSD via WINE).

I have come across a few more over the years, but I can't remember there names off the top of my head now.

Regards,
- Graeme -

In addition to ptop and JCL already mentioned, there is the closed source DelForEx.zip intended for use with Delphi. There are standaline versions of it that run under wine on 'nix.