I’ve been reading the Coding Conventions of RIOT and I’m wondering how do you manage to stick to them? Do you just code like that or do you have a tool to auto indent?
Now I’m using Visual Studio Code and the Ctrl + Alt + L (auto indent) has a completely different style. What editor/tool are you using? Is there any preset that I can load and use or do I need to set up everyting manually?
Regards.
We’re using uncrustify. There’s a RIOT config for it at https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/uncrustify-riot.cfg.
Thank you! It is exactly what I was looking for!
Like Kaspar said, there’s uncrustify to check if your code follows the predefined code-style, but to be honest I don’t think using uncrustify for anything else than a final check before pushing is a good idea.
Most tools allow you to configure stuff like indentation in a config file. (e.g. for Vim it’s in the .vimrc where you add set expandtab and set softtabstop=4 for 4 spaces for each tab). I guess VSCode also has these settings somewhere?
Let me disagree with you. I absolutely see no point in using VSCode formatting or changing it, It´s a waste of time. I already set up uncrustify + uncrustify VSCode extension. I placed the already existing uncrustify config file in the RIOT root directory and when I press the standard VSCode format button the code is automagically formatted according to the code style. And this is only for this project. This is awesome, I can use other indents in other projects and I don´t need to mess with the settings. Everything is done for me and I can bee 100% sure that my indentation is correct. It took me about 10minutes to set up everything.