project.clj formatting

[Fazerty]

Hello,

I use lein-search frequently and it works well but

• I loose all my comments
• I loose the code formatting. All is on the same line.
  Can you fix it?

Thanks

[Licenser]

Hi Fazerty,e
sadly the limits of what the reader gives back kick in here. When 'reading' the project.clj file, one only gets back a data structure, all formating and comments removed so printing them back in the same way is not done easiely.
While I won't say it is impossible to keep the stuff it would mean hand parsing all the data and adding some heuristics where what belongs to. I will think if I come up with a feasable solution to that but can't promise anything.

[Fazerty]

Hi,
I thought that it could be possible to keep the reading step as it is but use regex to write modifications to the file instead of writing a new file. The comments and formatting will be kept except inside dependencies
but I think it's a very special case and comments within dependencies can be lost.
Example:
;; a comment
[ xxxx ;;an other comment

"version-number"]
;; [yyyy "123"] a third comment

will be replaced by

;; a comment
[xxxx "new-version-number]
;; [yyyy "123"] a third comment

a new step can be added to validate the modifications. If it fails the current way to write file can be used.