1Perltidy TODO List 2 This is a partial "wish-list" of features to add and things to do. 3 4 Provide an option to ignore side comments when checking line length. 5 That is, side comments would be allowed to be arbitrarily long without 6 influencing line breaks. 7 8 Improved Vertical Alignment 9 There are still many opportunities for improving vertical alignment. 10 11 Minimize the instances in which formatting changes on a second iteration. 12 13 Add a convergence test when -it=n is used 14 15 Documentation 16 A FAQ is needed to explain some of the more subtle formatting issues, 17 and to give examples of different styles. 18 19 The -formatter callback object documentation is incomplete. 20 21 HTML writer 22 The HTML writer does not colorize interpolated identifiers in here 23 documents or quoted strings. The tokenizer outputs interpolation 24 information for here docs; it still needs to be updated to do this for 25 multi-line quotes. Then code needs to be written to scan for and markup 26 identifiers. 27 28Things which have been suggested but will not be done 29 Recursive file processing 30 A -r flag might be nice, but this is best handled by an exterior shell 31 script. 32 33 Make perltidy support the syntax of some module XXX. 34 This generally won't be done unless the module is part of the core perl 35 distribution. But in some cases it might be possible to use the prefilter 36 and postfilter capabilities of the Tidy.pm module to help. 37