Xah Talk Show 2022-08-27 Automatic Code Formatting: JavaScript Python PowerShell Golang Elisp WolframLang, Emacs Integration

JavaScript auto-format

• demo automatic code formatting in JavaScript
• JS: Range Function for Array 🚀
• demo emacs integration
• show emacs lisp code.
• Emacs: Format JavaScript Code
• Emacs: Xah JavaScript Mode (xah-js-mode.el)
• show the deno command. deno fmt %s

PowerShell auto-format

• demo PowerShell auto format.
• use code PowerShell: Toggle Dark Theme
• PowerShell: Command to Format PowerShell Code
• show emacs lisp code.
• Emacs: Format PowerShell Code
• Emacs: Xah PowerShell Mode

golang auto-format

• demo golang auto format.
• use code Golang: Script to Find Replace Multi-Pairs of Regex in a Directory
• demo emacs integration
• show emacs lisp code. Emacs: Format Golang Code
• show the gofmt command

python auto-format

• demo python auto format.
• use code xah find .py
• change some quote to single, add some tabs, change 4 space to 2
• demo emacs integration
• show emacs lisp code
• show python external command
• Python: Script to Find Replace Multi-Pairs Regex in a Directory
• Python: Auto Format Code
• Emacs: Format Python Code

emacs lisp auto-format

• talk about the special case of emacs lisp.
• sad it no exist.
• demo partial auto format Emacs: Xah Elisp Mode (xah-elisp-mode.el)
• ELisp: Automatic Code Formatting

real-time auto-format, WolframLang

• explain concept of real-time auto formatting
• lisp, WolframLang, html, xml, apl.
• demo real-time auto formatting with WolframLang. use the inversion example. Geometric Inversion, WolframLang Code
• auto typeset it. demo how it works on complex typeset math formulas too

• explain: Automatic, Uniform, Universal, Source Code Display. show the section at Fundamental Problems of Lisp, written in 2008.
• What Does it Mean When a Programing Language Claims “Whitespace is Insignificant”?