| -bad -, -nbad |
| | If -bad is specified, a blank line is forced after every block of declarations. Default: -nbad . |
| -bap -, -nbap |
| | If -bap is specified, a blank line is forced after every procedure body. Default: -nbap . |
| -bbb -, -nbbb |
| | If -bbb is specified, a blank line is forced before every block comment. Default: -nbbb . |
| -bc -, -nbc |
| | If -bc is specified, then a newline is forced after each comma in a declaration. -nbc turns off this option. Default: -nbc . |
| -br -, -bl |
| | Specifying -bl lines-up compound statements like this:
if (...)
{
code
}
Specifying -br (the default) makes them look like this:
if (...) {
code
}
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| -c n | The column in which comments on code start. The default is 33. |
| -cd n | The column in which comments on declarations start. The default is for these comments to start in the same column as those on code. |
| -cdb -, -ncdb |
| | Enables (disables) the placement of comment delimiters on blank lines. With this option enabled, comments look like this:
/*
* this is a comment
*/
Rather than like this:
/* this is a comment */
This only affects block comments, not comments to the right of code. The default is -cdb . |
| -ce -, -nce |
| | Enables (disables) forcing of ‘else’s to cuddle up to the immediately preceding ‘}’. The default is -ce . |
| -ci n | Sets the continuation indent to be n. Continuation lines will be indented that far from the beginning of the first line of the statement. Parenthesized expressions have extra indentation added to indicate the nesting, unless -lp is in effect or the continuation indent is exactly half of the main indent. -ci defaults to the same value as -i . |
| -cli n | Causes case labels to be indented n tab stops to the right of the containing switch statement. -cli0.5 causes case labels to be indented half a tab stop. The default is -cli0 . |
| -d n | Controls the placement of comments which are not to the right of code. For example, -d1 means that such comments are placed one indentation level to the left of code. Specifying the default -d0 lines-up these comments with the code. See the section on comment indentation below. |
| -di n | Specifies the indentation, in character positions, of global variable names and all struct/union member names relative to the beginning of their type declaration. The default is -di16 . |
| -dj -, -ndj |
| | -dj left justifies declarations. -ndj indents declarations the same as code. The default is -ndj . |
| -ei -, -nei |
| | Enables (disables) special else-if processing. If it is enabled, an if following an else will have the same indentation as the preceding if statement. The default is -ei . |
| -fbs -, -nfbs |
| | Enables (disables) splitting the function declaration and opening brace across two lines. The default is -fbs . |
| -fc1 -, -nfc1 |
| | Enables (disables) the formatting of comments that start in column 1. Often, comments whose leading ‘/’ is in column 1 have been carefully hand formatted by the programmer. In such cases, -nfc1 should be used. The default is -fc1 . |
| -fcb -, -nfcb |
| | Enables (disables) the formatting of block comments (ones that begin with ‘/*\n’). Often, block comments have been not so carefully hand formatted by the programmer, but reformatting that would just change the line breaks is not wanted. In such cases, -nfcb should be used. Block comments are then handled like box comments. The default is -fcb . |
| -i n | The number of spaces for one indentation level. The default is 8. |
| -ip -, -nip |
| | Enables (disables) the indentation of parameter declarations from the left margin. The default is -ip . |
| -l n | Maximum length of an output line. The default is 78. |
| -ldi n | Specifies the indentation, in character positions, of local variable names relative to the beginning of their type declaration. The default is for local variable names to be indented by the same amount as global ones. |
| -lp -, -nlp |
| | Lines-up code surrounded by parenthesis in continuation lines. If a line has a left paren which is not closed on that line, then continuation lines will be lined up to start at the character position just after the left paren. For example, here is how a piece of continued code looks with -nlp in effect:
p1 = first_procedure(second_procedure(p2, p3),
third_procedure(p4, p5));
With -lp in effect (the default) the code looks somewhat clearer:
p1 = first_procedure(second_procedure(p2, p3),
third_procedure(p4, p5));
Inserting two more newlines we get:
p1 = first_procedure(second_procedure(p2,
p3),
third_procedure(p4,
p5));
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| -npro | Causes the profile files, './.indent.pro' and '~/.indent.pro', to be ignored. |
| -pcs -, -npcs |
| | If true (-pcs) all procedure calls will have a space inserted between the name and the ‘(’. The default is -npcs . |
| -psl -, -npsl |
| | If true (-psl) the names of procedures being defined are placed in column 1 - their types, if any, will be left on the previous lines. The default is -psl . |
| -sc -, -nsc |
| | Enables (disables) the placement of asterisks (‘*’s) at the left edge of all comments. The default is -sc . |
| -sob -, -nsob |
| | If -sob is specified, indent will swallow optional blank lines. You can use this to get rid of blank lines after declarations. Default: -nsob . |
| -st | Causes indent to take its input from stdin and put its output to stdout. |
| -T typename |
| | Adds typename to the list of type keywords. Names accumulate: -T can be specified more than once. You need to specify all the typenames that appear in your program that are defined by typedef - nothing will be harmed if you miss a few, but the program will not be formatted as nicely as it should. This sounds like a painful thing to have to do, but it is really a symptom of a problem in C: typedef causes a syntactic change in the language and indent cannot find all instances of typedef. |
| -troff |
| | Causes indent to format the program for processing by troff(1). It will produce a fancy listing in much the same spirit as vgrind(1). If the output file is not specified, the default is standard output, rather than formatting in place. |
| -ut -, -nut |
| | Enables (disables) the use of tab characters in the output. Tabs are assumed to be aligned on columns divisible by 8. The default is -ut . |
| -v -, -nv |
| | -v turns on ‘verbose’ mode; -nv turns it off. When in verbose mode, indent reports when it splits one line of input into two or more lines of output, and gives some size statistics at completion. The default is -nv . |
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