vim-autoformat

This vim plugin integrates external code-formatting programs into vim automatically. If you have installed a supported formatprogram, you can use it within vim out of the box.

How to install (Vundle)

Put this in your .vimrc

Bundle "Chiel92/vim-autoformat"

How to use

First you have to install an external program that can format code of the programming language you are using. It suffices to make the formatprogram either globally available (which is the case if you installed it via your package manager) or to put it in the formatters/ folder. Sometimes alternative installation methods are supported.

When you have installed the formatters you need, you can format the buffer with the command :Autoformat. For convenience it is recommended that you assign a key for this, like so:

noremap <F7> :Autoformat<CR><CR>

If you don't want to format the whole vimbuffer, you can alternatively format visually selected code with gq. For more ways to perform autoformatting type :help gq.

Supported formatprograms

With most of the distro's, if you installed a formatprogram, it's automatically globally available. If this is not the case, you can either make it globally available manually, or put it's binary in the formatters/ directory. Sometimes alternative installation methods are presented. Here is a list of formatprograms that are currently supported.

• astyle for C#, C++, C and Java. It's probably in your distro's repository, so you can download it as a regular package. For Ubuntu type sudo apt-get install astyle in a terminal. Otherwise, download it here: http://astyle.sourceforge.net/

• jsbeautify (the python CLI version) for Javascript. This one can also be installed as a vundle package, and I recommend to do so. Put this in your .vimrc: Bundle "einars/jsbeautify". Note that we're only using the python version, so node doesn't have to be installed. Here is the link to the repository: https://github.com/einars/js-beautify

• autopep8 for Python. It's probably in your distro's repository, so you can download it as a regular package. For Ubuntu type sudo apt-get install autopep8 in a terminal. Here is the link to the repository: https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8 And here the link to its page on the python website: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopep8/0.5.2

• phpCB for PHP. You can download it's binary here http://www.waterproof.fr/products/phpCodeBeautifier/download.php I recommend putting the phpCB binary in the formatters/ directory.

If you find yourself in need of support for another formatprogram, simply add a configuration file in the folder vim-autoformat/ftplugin/. You can take the existing ones as an example. Oh, and be sure to send me a patch. :)

How can I change the behaviour of formatters?

Every formatter is called from a script in the vim-autoformat/ftplugin/ directory. E.g. the file that calls the C# formatter is named vim-autoformat/ftplugin/cs.vim. You can change the arguments passed to the formatter in that file.

If you have any suggestions on this plugin or on this readme, or if you experience problems, please contact me by creating an issue in this repository. I'm also curious to know if it works on windows (or if it doesn't). Let me know!