Pretty printer for the Nginx config?

Dustin Oprea myselfasunder at gmail.com
Mon May 19 23:43:10 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Lord Nynex <lordnynex at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do something similar to this in some backend config management code I
> wrote awhile back. I've created a gist with some code snippets to help
> understand how I'm reading/writing the config.
>
> https://gist.github.com/lordnynex/1a568e54b5d1af38f549
>
> Obviously this is not what you're looking for, and pretty printing feels
> less pretty when your code is formatting it, but this sufficiently meets
> your criteria with a bit of work.
>
> Side note, I am not the original author of the grammar. I'd love to give
> him credit, but it was so long ago I can't find the original.
>
>
That's great, @LordNynex (I'm not the OP)... Though I have to admit that
memories of my days at a PERL-based transaction-processor came screeching
back when I saw the code.


>
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Dustin Oprea <myselfasunder at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  It's kind of along the right lines, but I need to keep comments, etc.
>>> Just have consistent whitespace more than anything else.
>>>
>>>
>> You might write your own and make it available.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Lyle
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/05/2014 19:59, Kurt Cancemi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Would this<https://github.com/lovette/nginx-tools/tree/master/nginx-minify-conf>suit your needs? And the nginx configuration files are written in there own
>>> language/syntax.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Is there a pretty printer for this file? It doesn't seem to be in any
>>>> particular language. I tried a JS beautifier but that broke things.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lyle
>>>>
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