Re: pgindent and line length

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Somehow, pgindent appears to have this approach to push lines that are
> longer than the defined line length limit back to the left to make it
> fit. That results in something like this:
>
> printfPQExpBuffer(&buf,
> "SELECT n.nspname as \"%s\",\n"
> " p.proname AS \"%s\",\n"
> " pg_catalog.format_type(p.prorettype, NULL) AS \"%s\",\n",
> gettext_noop("Schema"),
> gettext_noop("Name"),
> gettext_noop("Result data type"));
>
> where the third line of the string was moved to the left.
>
> I don't think this behavior is useful. If the line is too long and
> cannot be split, then it is still more useful to be able locate the
> start of the line in an expected position than to have the end of the
> line on the hypothetical screen. You'll have to scroll right anyway
> because there are usually lines that are going to be too long anyway.
>
> Can we get rid of this behavior?

I think we will have to switch to another indent binary to do that
because it is done by BSD indent and I can't think of a way of fixing it
with pre or post processing.

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