Integrate Perltidy in UE

Integrate Perltidy in UE

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    Oct 25, 2006#1

    Hi,

    How is it possible to integrate Perltidy in the UE IDE, to use Perltidy directly out of the editor?

    Has anyone experience with Perltidy and Ultraedit?

    Ciao - Jens
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      Nov 01, 2006#2

      jens_g wrote:How is it possible to integrate Perltidy in the UE IDE, to use Perltidy directly out of the editor?
      You can create a user tool to run perltidy on the active file. See Advanced->Tool Configuration. Create a new tool with a command line of:

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      perltidy "%f"
      You'll have to open up the resulting *.tdy file manually, although it's probably possible to create a macro to execute the tool and then open the file for you. Alternately, you could use perltidy's -b option but you'd have to be careful about overwriting your backup (and thus losing your original).

      I haven't had much luck getting PerlTidy to work on the selection, though. I think this is more of a UE problem as the selection is passed as an argument; there's no way to make it appear on STDIO. I've sent a feature request to IDM about this.

        Jun 27, 2007#3

        With the addition of scripting support in version 13 I was able to write a script to run perltidy on a selection. To use it, configure a tool named "perltidy file" with a command line of perltidy "%f" and a working directory of %P. Save the code below as perltidy.js. Add it to your list of scripts and configure your favorite hotkey. (I use Ctrl+Shift+T.)

        By itself, the user tool will run perltidy on the active file. Run through the script it will update only the current selection. If you need to undo the changes it's only a single step.

        Note: You may want to change the name/path of the temp file to something more appropriate for your system.

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        /*
 * Run perltidy on the current selection
 */

if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isSel()) {
 var tidyin  = "C:\\Temp\\perltidy.txt";
 var tidyout = tidyin + '.tdy';

 // Hack! Thanks, jorrasdk
 // https://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4571
 var idx = getActiveDocumentIndex();

 // Switch to a clipboard that's probably not in use
 UltraEdit.selectClipboard(9);

 // Save selection to temporary file
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.copy();
 UltraEdit.newFile();
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.paste();
 UltraEdit.saveAs(tidyin);

 // Run perltidy on code from selection
 // Tool must exist and be configured to run 'perltidy "%f"'
 UltraEdit.runTool("perltidy file");

 // Close tempfile
 UltraEdit.closeFile(tidyin, 2);

 // Get perltidy output
 UltraEdit.open(tidyout);
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.copy();
 UltraEdit.closeFile(tidyout, 2);

 // Replace selection with output of perltidy
 UltraEdit.document[idx].paste(); // why doesn't activeDocument work here?

 // Restore the clipboard we were probably using before
 UltraEdit.selectClipboard(0);
}

/* Find the tab index of the active document */
function getActiveDocumentIndex() {
 var tabindex = -1; /* start value */

 for (i = 0; i < UltraEdit.document.length; i++) {
 if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.path==UltraEdit.document[i].path) {
 tabindex = i;
 break;
 }
 }
 return tabindex;
}