AlDanial
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1 year ago The function that handles cloc's output tries to pad text to 79 columns. Making columns as tight as possible... I don't know, that doesn't really grab me. Having said that, it is straightforward to wrap cloc in a script that will squeeze the columns as tight as possible. Not just that, but with a wrapper you can satisfy #726 as well. The wrapper would just need to ingest one of cloc's programmer-friendly outputs (YAML, XML, or JSON) then format the results however you wish.
I've attached a sample wrapper to get you started.
cloc_tidy.py.txt
(in Python; added a .txt extension to allow the attachment)
Here's sample output from it:
--------------------------------------- Language nFiles comment blank code --------------------------------------- Perl 164 6739 2770 26032 HTML 30 207 151 8866 Bourne Shell 35 107 48 447 Python 5 218 34 275 C 1 19 4 50 MATLAB 1 1 0 22 --------------------------------------- SUM 236 7291 3007 35692 --------------------------------------- Language nFiles comment blank code ---------------------------------------
When the longest value in a column is still short, then the output could be tidied up by dynamically selecting a narrower column padding size.
E.g. when the only programming language found is
Go, the file count is single digit, etc.The tidiest text padding, is the length of the longest entry in the previous column, plus one space.
As a bonus, dynamic padding would help cloc to format correctly in case of experiencing incredibly large directory trees, beyond what the current static padding supports.