Re: [Caml-list] long lines in some OCaml code

[David House <dhouse@janestreet.com>]

I generally find highlighting in my editor with ugly background
colours characters that are past your personal max column preference
is a good way to achieve this. There are a few exceptions to the max
column width that I would not like to automatically wrap -- sometimes
for whatever reason you really need a long line.

On 3 October 2013 08:07, Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013, Francois Berenger wrote:
>> Is there a way to automatically cut all long lines
>> in a code base (and indent the cut part correctly)?
>
> That's something I never do automatically on whole files for fear of
> making huge and ugly diffs but instead with vim's "gq<movement>"
> command. It works well except for strings that end up spanning lines
> (but that's a matter of vim configuration :) ).
>
> If you want to do it on whole files (with a commit that only does
> reformatting :) ), you might want to look at ocp-indent[1].
>
> [1] http://www.typerex.org/ocp-indent.html
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