prmindent — Indent and format PRM files

[Paul A. Patience]

Hello everyone,

Last year I wrote a script to indent PRM files [1] in the Lethe project [2]. You may find it useful.

It can be used to recursively indent all PRM files in place in the current directory using find [3].

Best regards,
Paul

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~paulapatience/prmindent
[2]: https://github.com/lethe-cfd/lethe/blob/master/contrib/utilities/prmindent
[3]: https://github.com/lethe-cfd/lethe/blob/241d2222ad817bfc1fe8d58433f3cd1b098220d2/contrib/utilities/pre-commit.sh#L10

[blais...@gmail.com]

+1 Paul, god is this script fun

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

Hi Paul,

> Last year I wrote a script to indent PRM files [1] in the Lethe project [2].
> You may find it useful.
>
> It can be used to recursively indent all PRM files in place in the current
> directory using find [3].

Very nice!

Two proposals:
* We could add this script to the contrib/utilities/ directory. It would not
be difficult to have that script installed alongside the library, just like
the one file that is currently listed in contrib/utilities/CMakeLists.txt. If
the script was part of deal.II, we should also augment the documentation of
the ParameterHandler class to point to it.

* There are currently 133 .prm files in the deal.II source tree:
> find . -name *.prm | wc -l
One way to assess how the script works would be to run it on all of these
files and turn this into a pull request in itself.

Best & thanks for offering the script!
W.

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