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Index: packages/dart_style/README.md
diff --git a/packages/dart_style/README.md b/packages/dart_style/README.md
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@@ -1,46 +1,88 @@
The dart_style package defines an automatic, opinionated formatter for Dart
code. It replaces the whitespace in your program with what it deems to be the
-best formatting for it. Resulting code should following the [Dart style guide][]
+best formatting for it. Resulting code should follow the [Dart style guide][]
but, moreso, should look nice to most human readers, most of the time.
[dart style guide]: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/style-guide/
-It handles indentation, inline whitespace and (by far the most difficult),
-intelligent line wrapping. It has no problems with nested collections, function
+The formatter handles indentation, inline whitespace and
+(by far the most difficult), intelligent line wrapping.
+It has no problems with nested collections, function
expressions, long argument lists, or otherwise tricky code.
-## Usage
+The formatter turns code like this:
-The package exposes a simple command-line wrapper around the core formatting
-library. The easiest way to invoke it is to [globally activate][] the package
-and let pub put its executable on your path:
+```
+// BEFORE formatting
+if (tag=='style'||tag=='script'&&(type==null||type == TYPE_JS
+ ||type==TYPE_DART)||
+ tag=='link'&&(rel=='stylesheet'||rel=='import')) {}
+```
+
+into:
+
+```
+ // AFTER formatting
+ if (tag == 'style' ||
+ tag == 'script' &&
+ (type == null || type == TYPE_JS || type == TYPE_DART) ||
+ tag == 'link' && (rel == 'stylesheet' || rel == 'import')) {}
+```
+
+The formatter will never break your code—you can safely invoke it
+automatically from build and presubmit scripts.
+
+## Getting dartfmt
+
+Dartfmt is included in the Dart SDK, so you might want to add the SDK's bin
+directory to your system path.
+
+If you want to make sure you are running the latest version of dartfmt,
+you can [globally activate][] the package from the dart_style package
+on pub.dartlang.org, and let pub put its executable on your path:
$ pub global activate dart_style
$ dartfmt ...
[globally activate]: https://www.dartlang.org/tools/pub/cmd/pub-global.html
-If you don't want `dartformat` on your path, you can run it explicitly:
+If you don't want `dartfmt` on your path, you can run it explicitly:
$ pub global activate dart_style --no-executables
$ pub global run dart_style:format ...
-The formatter takes a list of paths, which can point to directories or files.
+## Using dartfmt
+
+IDEs and editors that support Dart usually provide easy ways to run the
+formatter. For example, in WebStorm you can right-click a .dart file
+and then choose **Reformat with Dart Style**.
+
+Here's a simple example of using dartfmt on the command line:
+
+```
+dartfmt test.dart
+```
+
+This command formats the `test.dart` file and writes the result to
+standard output.
+
+Dartfmt takes a list of paths, which can point to directories or files.
If the path is a directory, it processes every `.dart` file in that directory
or any of its subdirectories.
+If no file or directory is specified, dartfmt reads from standard input.
By default, it formats each file and just prints the resulting code to stdout.
-If you pass `-w`, it will instead overwrite your existing files with the
+If you pass `-w`, it overwrites your existing files with the
formatted results.
-You may pass a `--line-length` option to control the width of the page that it
+You may pass a `-l` option to control the width of the page that it
wraps lines to fit within, but you're strongly encouraged to keep the default
line length of 80 columns.
### Validating files
If you want to use the formatter in something like a [presubmit script][] or
-[commit hook][], you can use the `--dry-run` option. If you pass that, the
+[commit hook][], you can use the `-n` dry run option. If you specify `-n`, the
formatter prints the paths of the files whose contents would change if the
formatter were run normally. If it prints no output, then everything is already
correctly formatted.
@@ -48,7 +90,7 @@ correctly formatted.
[presubmit script]: http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/depottools/presubmit-scripts
[commit hook]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
-### Using it programmatically
+## Using the dart_style API
The package also exposes a single dart_style library containing a programmatic
API for formatting code. Simple usage looks like this:
@@ -71,219 +113,13 @@ API for formatting code. Simple usage looks like this:
}
}
-## FAQ
-
-### Why have a formatter?
-
-The has a few goals, in order of descending priority:
-
-1. **Produce consistently formatted code.** Consistent style improves
- readability because you aren't distracted by variance in style between
- different parts of a program. It makes it easier to contribute to others'
- code because their style will already be familiar to you.
-
-2. **End debates about style issues in code reviews.** This consumes an
- astonishingly large quantity of very valuable engineering energy. Style
- debates are time-consuming, upset people, and rarely change anyone's mind.
- They make code reviews take longer and be more acromonious.
-
-3. **Free users from having to think about and apply formatting.** When
- writing code, you don't have to try to figure out the best way to split a
- line and then pain-stakingly add in the line breaks. When you do a global
- refactor that changes the length of some identifier, you don't have to go
- back and rewrap all of the lines. When you're in the zone, you can just
- pump out code and let the formatter tidy it up for you as you go.
-
-4. **Produce beautiful, readable output that helps users understand the code.**
- We could solve all of the above goals with a formatter that just removed
- *all* whitespace, but that wouldn't be very human-friendly. So, finally,
- the formatter tries very hard to produce output that is not just consistent
- but readable to a human. It tries to use indentation and line breaks to
- highlight the structure and organization of the code.
-
- In several cases, the formatter has pointed out bugs where the existing
- indentation was misleading and didn't represent what the code actually did.
- For example, automated formatted would have helped make Apple's
- ["gotofail"][gotofail] security bug easier to notice:
-
- ```c
- if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
- goto fail;
- goto fail;
- if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
- goto fail;
- ```
-
- The formatter would change this to:
-
- ```c
- if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
- goto fail;
- goto fail; // <-- not clearly not under the "if".
- if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
- goto fail;
- ```
-
-[gotofail]: https://gotofail.com/
-
-### I don't like the output!
-
-First of all, that's not a question. But, yes, sometimes you may dislike the
-output of the formatter. This may be a bug or it may be a deliberate stylistic
-choice of the formatter that you disagree with. The simplest way to find out is
-to file an [issue][].
-
-[issue]: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues
-
-Now that the formatter is fairly mature, it's more likely that the output is
-deliberate. If your bug gets closed as "as designed", try not to be too sad.
-Even if the formatter doesn't follow your personal preferences, what it *does*
-do is spare you the effort of hand-formatting, and ensure your code is
-*consistently* formatted. I hope you'll appreciate the real value in both of
-those.
-
-### How stable is it?
-
-You can rely on the formatter to not break your code or change its semantics.
-If it does do so, this is a critical bug and we'll fix it quickly.
-
-The rules the formatter uses to determine the "best" way to split a line may
-change over time. We don't promise that code produced by the formatter today
-will be identical to the same code run through a later version of the formatter.
-We do hope that you'll like the output of the later version more.
-
-### Why can't I tell the formatter to ignore a region of code?
-
-Even a really sophisticated formatter can't beat a human in *all* cases. Our
-semantic knowledge of the code can let us show more than the formatter can. One
-escape hatch would be to have a comment telling the formatter "leave this
-alone".
-
-This might help the fourth goal above, but does so at the expense of the first
-three. We want code that is *consistent* and we want you to stop thinking about
-formatting. If you can decide to turn off the formatter, now you have regions
-of code that are inconsistent by design.
-
-Further, you're right back into debates about how the code in there should be
-formatted, with the extra bonus of now debating whether or not that annotation
-should be used and where. None of this is making your life better.
-
-Yes, *maybe* you can hand-format some things better than the formatter. (Though,
-in most cases where users have asked for this, I've seen formatting errors in
-the examples they provided!) But does doing that really add enough value to
-make up for re-opening that can of worms?
-
-### Why does the formatter mess up my collection literals?
-
-Large collection literals are often used to define big chunks of structured
-data, like:
-
-```dart
-/// Maps ASCII character values to what kind of character they represent.
-const characterTypes = const [
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, white, white, other, other, white,
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, other, white,
- punct, other, punct, punct, punct, punct, other,
- brace, brace, punct, punct, comma, punct, punct, punct,
- digit, digit, digit, digit, digit,
- digit, digit, digit, digit, digit,
- punct, punct, punct, punct, punct, punct, punct,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, brace, punct, brace, punct, alpha, other,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, brace, punct, brace, punct
-];
-```
-
-The formatter doesn't know those newlines are meaningful, so it wipes it out
-to:
-
-```dart
-/// Maps ASCII character values to what kind of character they represent.
-const characterTypes = const [
- other,
- other,
- other,
-
- // lots more ...
-
- punct,
- brace,
- punct
-];
-```
-
-In many cases, ignoring these newlines is a good thing. If you've removed a few
-items from a list, it's a win for the formatter to repack it into one line if
-it fits. But here it clearly loses useful information.
-
-Fortunately, in most cases, structured collections like this have comments
-describing their structure:
-
-```dart
-const characterTypes = const [
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, white, white, other, other, white,
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, other, other, other, other, other, other, other,
- other, other, white,
- punct, other, punct, punct, punct, punct, other, // !"#$%&ยด
- brace, brace, punct, punct, comma, punct, punct, punct, // ()*+,-./
- digit, digit, digit, digit, digit, // 01234
- digit, digit, digit, digit, digit, // 56789
- punct, punct, punct, punct, punct, punct, punct, // :;<=>?@
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, // ABCDEFGH
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, brace, punct, brace, punct, alpha, other, // YZ[\]^_'
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, // abcdefgh
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha,
- alpha, alpha, brace, punct, brace, punct // yz{|}~
-];
-```
-
-In that case, the formatter is smart enough to recognize this and preserve your
-original newlines. So, if you have a collection that you have carefully split
-into lines, add at least one line comment somewhere inside it to get it to
-preserve all of the newlines in it.
-
-### Why doesn't the formatter handle multi-line `if` statements better?
-
-If you have a statement like:
-
-```dart
-if (someVeryLongConditional || anotherLongConditional) function(argument, argument);
-```
-
-It will format it like:
-
-```dart
-if (someVeryLongConditional || anotherLongConditional) function(
- argument, argument);
-```
-
-You might expect it to break before `function`. But the Dart style guide
-explicitly forbids multi-line `if` statements that do not use `{}` bodies.
-Given that, there's never a reason for the formatter to allow splitting after
-the condition. This is true of other control flow statements too, of course.
-
-### Why doesn't the formatter add curlies or otherwise clean up code then?
+## Other resources
-The formatter has a simple, restricted charter: it rewrites *only the
-non-semantic whitespace of your program.* It makes absolutely no other changes
-to your code.
+* Before sending an email, see if you are asking a
+ [frequently asked question][faq].
-This helps keep the scope of the project limited. The set of "clean-ups" you
-may want to do is unbounded and much fuzzier to define.
+* Before filing a bug, or if you want to understand how work on the
+ formatter is managed, see how we [track issues][].
-It also makes it more reliable to run the formatter automatically in things
-like presubmit scripts where a human may not be vetting the output. If the
-formatter only touches whitespace, it's easier for a human to trust its output.
+[faq]: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/wiki/FAQ
+[track issues]: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/wiki/Tracking-issues
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