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@@ -1,11 +1,36 @@ # cssindent, indent css without going crazy I needed to write some CSS to style an HTML rendering of some man pages. +Sometimes I also write CSS for some simple web applications, most of +which simply generate HTML in the Go/C/Python backend and have +absolutely no JavaScript anyways. + +Sometimes I write the CSS without being careful with formatting, or I +copy some badly formatted CSS (e.g. from +[mandoc](https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/~checkout~/mandoc/mandoc.css?rev=1.52)). +I want to format them to my standard: tabs for indentation, no extra +spaces, etc. + I asked for a CSS prettifier that works offline in #web, and that could be hooked up to vim to prettify on save. And I was called a troll because "web dev needs web, duh". (There are nice people in #web, and -this is not directed towards #web.) +this small rant is not directed towards #web.) -So here's a fucking program to indent CSS. It's not perfect, I'm not +So here is a simple program to indent CSS. It's not perfect, I'm not going to read 65535 pages of W3C specifications, but it works for my purposes. + +(I should probably write a yacc parser, but I guess a simple solution +like this works for now.) + +## Usage +```sh +cssindent < input.css > output.css +cssindent < inplace.css | sponge inplace.css +``` + +[`sponge`](https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/moreutils.git/plain/sponge.c) +is a rather useful utility that buffers input from standard input and +writes it to a file, which makes in-place file changes easier. (Simply +using the same file for both input and output redirection would cause +the file to be truncated.) |