This is Edition 2.2.0 of The indent
Manual,
for Indent Version 2.2.0, last updated 24 July 1999.
Copyright (C) 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Joseph Arceneaux. Copyright (C) 1999 Carlo Wood.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
indent
: Indent and Format C Program Sourceindent
program
changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or deleting whitespace.
This is Edition 2.2.0, 24 July 1999, of The indent
Manual,
for Indent Version 2.2.0.
indent
Programindent
program
can be used to make code easier to read. It can also convert from one
style of writing C to another.
indent
understands a substantial amount about the syntax of C,
but it also attempts to cope with incomplete and misformed syntax.
In version 1.2 and more recent versions, the GNU style of indenting is the default.
indent
As of version 1.3, the format of the indent
command is:
indent [OPTIONS] [INPUT-FILES] indent [OPTIONS] [SINGLE-INPUT-FILE] [-o OUTPUT-FILE]
This format is different from earlier versions and other versions of
indent
.
In the first form, one or more input files are specified. indent
makes a backup copy of each file, and the original file is replaced with
its indented version. See [Backup files], for an explanation of how
backups are made.
In the second form, only one input file is specified. In this case, or
when the standard input is used, you may specify an output file after
the -o
option.
To cause indent
to write to standard output, use the -st
option. This is only allowed when there is only one input file, or when
the standard input is used.
If no input files are named, the standard input is read for input.
Also, if a filename named -
is specified, then the standard input
is read.
As an example, each of the following commands will input the program
slithy_toves.c
and write its indented text to
slithy_toves.out
:
indent slithy_toves.c -o slithy_toves.out indent -st slithy_toves.c > slithy_toves.out cat slithy_toves.c | indent -o slithy_toves.out
Most other options to indent
control how programs are formatted.
As of version 1.2, indent
also recognizes a long name for each
option name. Long options are prefixed by either --
or
+
.[1] In most of this document,
the traditional, short names are used for the sake of brevity.
See [Option Summary], for a list of options, including both long and
short names.
Here is another example:
indent -br test/metabolism.c -l85
This will indent the program test/metabolism.c
using the
-br
and -l85
options, write the output back to
test/metabolism.c
, and write the original contents of
test/metabolism.c
to a backup file in the directory test
.
Equivalent invocations using long option names for this example would be:
indent --braces-on-if-line --line-length185 test/metabolism.c indent +braces-on-if-line +line-length185 test/metabolism.c
If you find that you often use indent
with the same options, you
may put those options into a file named .indent.pro
.
indent
will first look for .indent.pro
in the current
directory and use that if found. Otherwise, indent
will search
your home directory for .indent.pro
and use that file if it is
found. This behaviour is different from that of other versions of
indent
, which load both files if they both exist.
The format of .indent.pro
is simply a list of options, just as
they would appear on the command line, separated by white space (tabs,
spaces, and newlines). Options in .indent.pro
may be surrounded by C
or C++ comments, in which case they are ignored.
Command line switches are handled after processing
.indent.pro
. Options specified later override arguments
specified earlier, with one exception: Explicitly specified options
always override background options (see [Common styles].). You can
prevent indent
from reading an .indent.pro
file by
specifying the -npro
option.
indent
makes GNU-style backup files, the
same way GNU Emacs does. This means that either simple or
numbered backup filenames may be made.
Simple backup file names are generated by appending a suffix to the
original file name. The default for this suffix is the
one-character string ~
(tilde). Thus, the backup file for
python.c
would be python.c~
.
Instead of the default, you may specify any string as a suffix by
setting the environment variable SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX
to
your preferred suffix.
Numbered backup versions of a file momewraths
look like
momewraths.c.~23~
, where 23 is the version of this particular
backup. When making a numbered backup of the file src/momewrath.c
,
the backup file will be named src/momewrath.c.~V~
, where
V is one greater than the highest version currently existing in
the directory src
.
The type of backup file made is controlled by the value of the
environment variable VERSION_CONTROL
. If it is the string
simple
, then only simple backups will be made. If its value is
the string numbered
, then numbered backups will be made. If its
value is numbered-existing
, then numbered backups will be made if
there already exist numbered backups for the file being indented;
otherwise, a simple backup is made. If VERSION_CONTROL
is not
set, then indent
assumes the behaviour of
numbered-existing
.
Other versions of indent
use the suffix .BAK
in naming
backup files. This behaviour can be emulated by setting
SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX
to .BAK
.
Note also that other versions of indent
make backups in the
current directory, rather than in the directory of the source file as
GNU indent
now does.
As of version 1.2, the default style of GNU indent
is the GNU
style. Thus, it is no longer neccessary to specify the option
-gnu
to obtain this format, although doing so will not cause an
error. Option settings which correspond to the GNU style are:
-nbad -bap -nbc -bbo -bl -bli2 -bls -ncdb -nce -cp1 -cs -di2 -ndj -nfc1 -nfca -hnl -i2 -ip5 -lp -pcs -psl -nsc -nsob
The GNU coding style is that preferred by the GNU project. It is the style that the GNU Emacs C mode encourages and which is used in the C portions of GNU Emacs. (People interested in writing programs for Project GNU should get a copy of The GNU Coding Standards, which also covers semantic and portability issues such as memory usage, the size of integers, etc.)
The Kernighan & Ritchie style is used throughout their well-known book
The C Programming Language. It is enabled with the -kr
option. The Kernighan & Ritchie style corresponds to the following set
of options:
-nbad -bap -bbo -nbc -br -brs -c33 -cd33 -ncdb -ce -ci4 -cli0 -cp33 -cs -d0 -di1 -nfc1 -nfca -hnl -i4 -ip0 -l75 -lp -npcs -npsl -nsc -nsob -nss
Kernighan & Ritchie style does not put comments to the right of code in
the same column at all times (nor does it use only one space to the
right of the code), so for this style indent
has arbitrarily
chosen column 33.
The style of the original Berkeley indent
may be obtained by
specifying -orig
(or by specifyfying --original
, using the
long option name). This style is equivalent to the following settings:
-nbad -nbap -bbo -bc -br -brs -c33 -cd33 -cdb -ce -ci4 -cli0 -cp33 -di16 -fc1 -fca -hnl -i4 -ip4 -l75 -lp -npcs -psl -sc -nsob -nss -ts8
Various programming styles use blank lines in different places.
indent
has a number of options to insert or delete blank lines in
specific places.
The -bad
option causes indent
to force a blank line after
every block of declarations. The -nbad
option causes
indent
not to force such blank lines.
The -bap
option forces a blank line after every procedure body.
The -nbap
option forces no such blank line.
The -bbb
option forces a blank line before every boxed comment.
(See [Comments]) The -nbbb
option does not force such blank lines.
The -sob
option causes indent
to swallow optional blank
lines (that is, any optional blank lines present in the input will be
removed from the output). If the -nsob
is specified, any blank
lines present in the input file will be copied to the output file.
-bad
option forces a blank line after every block of
declarations. The -nbad
option does not add any such blank
lines.
For example, given the input
char *foo; char *bar; /* This separates blocks of declarations. */ int baz;
indent -bad
produces
char *foo; char *bar; /* This separates blocks of declarations. */ int baz;
and indent -nbad
produces
char *foo; char *bar; /* This separates blocks of declarations. */ int baz;
-bap
option forces a blank line after every procedure body.
For example, given the input
int foo () { puts("Hi"); } /* The procedure bar is even less interesting. */ char * bar () { puts("Hello"); }
indent -bap
produces
int foo () { puts ("Hi"); } /* The procedure bar is even less interesting. */ char * bar () { puts ("Hello"); }
and indent -nbap
produces
int foo () { puts ("Hi"); } /* The procedure bar is even less interesting. */ char * bar () { puts ("Hello"); }
No blank line will be added after the procedure foo
.
indent
formats both C and C++ comments. C comments are begun with
/*
, terminated with */
and may contain newline characters.
C++ comments begin with the delimiter //
and end at the newline.
indent
handles comments differently depending upon their context.
indent
attempts to distinguish amongst comments which follow
statements, comments which follow declarations, comments following
preprocessor directives, and comments which are not preceded by code of
any sort, i.e., they begin the text of the line (although not
neccessarily in column 1).
indent
further distinguishes between comments found outside of
procecures and aggregates, and those found within them. In particular,
comments beginning a line found within a procedure will be indented to
the column at which code is currently indented. The exception to this a
comment beginning in the leftmost column; such a comment is output
at that column.
indent
attempts to leave boxed comments unmodified. The
general idea of such a comment is that it is enclosed in a rectangle or
"box" of stars or dashes to visually set it apart. More precisely,
boxed comments are defined as those in which the initial /*
is
followed immediately by the character *
, =
, _
, or
-
, or those in which the beginning comment delimiter (/*
)
is on a line by itself, and the following line begins with a *
in
the same column as the star of the opening delimiter.
Examples of boxed comments are:
/********************** * Comment in a box!! * **********************/ /* * A different kind of scent, * for a different kind of comment. */
indent
attempts to leave boxed comments exactly as they are found
in the source file. Thus the indentation of the comment is unchanged,
and its length is not checked in any way. The only alteration made is
that an embedded tab character may be converted into the appropriate
number of spaces.
If the -bbb
option is specified, all such boxed comments will be
preceded by a blank line, unless such a comment is preceded by code.
Comments which are not boxed comments may be formatted, which means that
the line is broken to fit within a right margin and left-filled with
whitespace. Single newlines are equivalent to a space, but blank lines
(two or more newlines in a row) are taken to mean a paragraph break.
Formatting of comments which begin after the first column is enabled
with the -fca
option. To format those beginning in column one,
specify -fc1
. Such formatting is disabled by default.
The right margin for formatting defaults to 78, but may be changed with
the -lc
option. If the margin specified does not allow the
comment to be printed, the margin will be automatically extended for the
duration of that comment. The margin is not respected if the comment is
not being formatted.
If the comment begins a line (i.e., there is no program text to its
left), it will be indented to the column it was found in unless the
comment is within a block of code. In that case, such a comment will be
aligned with the indented code of that block (unless the comment began
in the first column). This alignment may be affected by the -d
option, which specifies an amount by which such comments are moved to
the left, or unindented. For example, -d2
places comments
two spaces to the left of code. By default, comments are aligned with
code, unless they begin in the first column, in which case they are left
there by default - to get them aligned with the code, specify -fc1
.
Comments to the right of code will appear by default in column 33.
This may be changed with one of three options. -c
will specify
the column for comments following code, -cd
specifies the
column for comments following declarations, and -cp
specifies
the column for comments following preprocessor directives #else
and #endif
.
If the code to the left of the comment exceeds the beginning column, the comment column will be extended to the next tabstop column past the end of the code, or in the case of preprocessor directives, to one space past the end of the directive. This extension lasts only for the output of that particular comment.
The -cdb
option places the comment delimiters on blank lines.
Thus, a single line comment like /* Loving hug */
can be
transformed into:
/* Loving hug */
Stars can be placed at the beginning of multi-line comments with the
-sc
option. Thus, the single-line comment above can be
transformed (with -cdb -sc
) into:
/* * Loving hug */
-br
or -bl
option specifies how to format braces.
The -br
option formats statement braces like this:
if (x > 0) { x--; }
The -bl
option formats them like this:
if (x > 0) { x--; }
If you use the -bl
option, you may also want to specify the
-bli
option. This option specifies the number of spaces by
which braces are indented. -bli2
, the default, gives the
result shown above. -bli0
results in the following:
if (x > 0) { x--; }
If you are using the -br
option, you probably want to also use
the -ce
option. This causes the else
in an if-then-else
construct to cuddle up to the immediately preceding }
. For
example, with -br -ce
you get the following:
if (x > 0) { x--; } else { fprintf (stderr, "...something wrong?\n"); }
With -br -nce
that code would appear as
if (x > 0) { x--; } else { fprintf (stderr, "...something wrong?\n"); }
The -cli
option specifies the number of spaces that case labels
should be indented to the right of the containing switch
statement.
The default gives code like:
switch (i) { case 0: break; case 1: { ++i; } default: break; }
Using the -cli2
that would become:
switch (i) { case 0: break; case 1: { ++i; } default: break; }
The indentation of the braces below a case statement can be
controlled with the -cbiN
option. For example,
using -cli2 -cbi0
results in:
switch (i) { case 0: break; case 1: { ++i; } default: break; }
If a semicolon is on the same line as a for
or while
statement, the -ss
option will cause a space to be placed before
the semicolon. This emphasizes the semicolon, making it clear that the
body of the for
or while
statement is an empty statement.
-nss
disables this feature.
The -pcs
option causes a space to be placed between the name of
the procedure being called and the (
(for example, puts ("Hi");
. The -npcs
option would give puts("Hi");
).
If the -cs
option is specified, indent
puts a space after
a cast operator.
The -bs
option ensures that there is a space between the
keyword sizeof
and its argument. In some versions, this is
known as the Bill_Shannon
option.
indent
will line up identifiers, in the column
specified by the -di
option. For example, -di16
makes
things look like:
int foo; char *bar;
Using a small value (such as one or two) for the -di
option can
be used to cause the indentifiers to be placed in the first available
position, for example
int foo; char *bar;
The value given to the -di
option will still affect variables
which are put on separate lines from their types, for example
-di2
will lead to
int foo;
If the -bc
option is specified, a newline is forced after each
comma in a declaration. For example,
int a, b, c;
With the -nbc
option this would look like
int a, b, c;
The -psl
option causes the type of a procedure being defined to
be placed on the line before the name of the procedure. This style is
required for the etags
program to work correctly, as well as some
of the c-mode
functions of Emacs.
You must use the -T
option to tell indent
the name of all the typenames in your
program that are defined by typedef
. -T
can be specified
more than once, and all names specified are used. For example, if your
program contains
typedef unsigned long CODE_ADDR; typedef enum {red, blue, green} COLOR;
you would use the options -T CODE_ADDR -T COLOR
.
The `-brs' or `-bls' option specifies how to format braces in struct declarations. The `-brs' option formats braces like this:
struct foo { int x; };
The `-bls' option formats them like this:
struct foo { int x; };
if
or for
is encountered, the indentation level is
increased by the value specified by the -i
option. For example,
use -i8
to specify an eight character indentation for each
level. When a statement is broken across two lines, the second line is
indented by a number of additional spaces specified by the -ci
option. -ci
defaults to 0. However, if the -lp
option is
specified, and a line has a left parenthesis which is not closed on that
line, then continuation lines will be lined up to start at the character
position just after the left parenthesis. This processing also applies
to [
and applies to {
when it occurs in initialization
lists. For example, a piece of continued code might look like this with
-nlp -ci3
in effect:
p1 = first_procedure (second_procedure (p2, p3), third_procedure (p4, p5));
With -lp
in effect the code looks somewhat clearer:
p1 = first_procedure (second_procedure (p2, p3), third_procedure (p4, p5));
When a statement is broken inbetween two or more paren pairs (...), each extra pair causes the indentation level extra indentation:
if ((((i < 2 && k > 0) || p == 0) && q == 1) || n = 0)
The option `-ipN' can be used to set the extra offset per paren. For instance, `-ip0' would format the above as:
if ((((i < 2 && k > 0) || p == 0) && q == 1) || n = 0)
indent
assumes that tabs are placed at regular intervals of both
input and output character streams. These intervals are by default 8
columns wide, but (as of version 1.2) may be changed by the -ts
option. Tabs are treated as the equivalent number of spaces.
The indentation of type declarations in old-style function definitions
is controlled by the -ip
parameter. This is a numeric parameter
specifying how many spaces to indent type declarations. For example,
the default -ip5
makes definitions look like this:
char * create_world (x, y, scale) int x; int y; float scale; { . . . }
For compatibility with other versions of indent, the option -nip
is provided, which is equivalent to -ip0
.
ANSI C allows white space to be placed on preprocessor command lines
between the character #
and the command name. By default,
indent
removes this space, but specifying the -lps
option
directs indent
to leave this space unmodified.
-lN
, or --line-lengthN
, it is
possible to specify the maximum length of a line of C code, not including
possible comments that follow it.
When lines become longer then the specified line length, GNU indent
tries to break the line at a logical place. This is new as of version 2.1
however and not very intelligent or flexible yet.
Currently there are two options that allows one to interfere with the algorithm that determines where to break a line.
The -bbo
option causes GNU indent
to prefer to break long
lines before the boolean operators &&
and ||
. The -nbbo
option causes GNU indent
not have that preference. For example,
the default option -bbo
(together with --line-length60
and
--ignore-newlines
) makes code look like this:
if (mask && ((mask[0] == '\0') || (mask[1] == '\0' && ((mask[0] == '0') || (mask[0] == '*')))))
Using the option -nbbo
will make it look like this:
if (mask && ((mask[0] == '\0') || (mask[1] == '\0' && ((mask[0] == '0') || (mask[0] == '*')))))
The default -hnl
however, honours newlines in the input file by
giving them the highest possible priority to break lines at. For example,
when the input file looks like this:
if (mask && ((mask[0] == '\0') || (mask[1] == '\0' && ((mask[0] == '0') || (mask[0] == '*')))))
then using the option -hnl
, or --honour-newlines
, together
with the previously mentioned -nbbo
and --line-length60
, will
cause the output not to be what is given in the last example but instead
will prefer to break at the positions where the code was broken in the
input file:
if (mask && ((mask[0] == '\0') || (mask[1] == '\0' && ((mask[0] == '0') || (mask[0] == '*')))))
The idea behind this option is that lines which are too long, but are already
broken up, will not be touched by GNU indent
. Really messy code
should be run through indent
at least once using the
--ignore-newlines
option though.
/* *INDENT-OFF* */
on a line by itself just before that
section. Program text scanned after this control comment is output
precisely as input with no modifications until the corresponding
enabling comment is scanned on a line by itself. The disabling control
comment is /* *INDENT-ON* */
, and any text following the comment
on the line is also output unformatted. Formatting begins again with
the input line following the enabling control comment.
More precisely, indent
does not attempt to verify the closing
delimiter (*/
) for these C comments, and any whitespace on the
line is totally transparent.
These control comments also function in their C++ formats, namely
// *INDENT-OFF*
and // *INDENT-ON*
.
It should be noted that the internal state of indent
remains
unchanged over the course of the unformatted section. Thus, for
example, turning off formatting in the middle of a function and
continuing it after the end of the function may lead to bizarre
results. It is therefore wise to be somewhat modular in selecting code
to be left unformatted.
As a historical note, some earlier versions of indent
produced
error messages beginning with *INDENT**
. These versions of
indent
were written to ignore any input text lines which began
with such error messages. I have removed this incestuous feature from
GNU indent
.
indent
you have, use the command
indent -version
. This will report the version number of
indent
, without doing any of the normal processing.
The -v
option can be used to turn on verbose mode. When in
verbose mode, indent
reports when it splits one line of input
into two more more lines of output, and gives some size statistics at
completion.
indent
is run twice on a file, with the same profile,
it should never change that file the second time. With the
current design of indent
this can not be garanteed however
and it has not been extensively tested.
Indent
does not understand C. In some cases this leads to
the inability to join lines. The result is that running a file
through indent
is irreversable, even if the used input
file was the result of running indent
with a given profile
(.indent.pro
).
While an attempt was made to get indent
working for C++, is
will not do a good job on any C++ source except the real simple.
Indent
does not look at the given --line-length
option
when writing comments to the output file. This results often in comments
being put far to the right. In order to prohibit indent
from
joining a broken line that has a comment at the end, make sure that the
comments start on the first line of the break.
Indent
does not count lines and comments (see the -v
option)
when indent
is turned off with /* *INDENT-OFF* */
.
indent
program.
The copyright and copying permissions for this manual appear near the
beginning of indent.texinfo and indent.info, and near the end of indent.1.
Copyright (c) 1999 Carlo Wood. Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Joseph Arceneaux. Copyright (c) 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation Copyright (c) 1985 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California. Copyright (c) 1976 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois, Urbana, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. The name of either University or Sun Microsystems may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
indent
, alphabetized by
short option. It is followed by a cross key alphabetized by long option.
-bad
--blank-lines-after-declarations
See [Blank lines].
-bap
--blank-lines-after-procedures
See [Blank lines].
-bbb
--blank-lines-after-block-comments
See [Blank lines].
-bbo
--break-before-boolean-operator
See [Breaking long lines].
-bc
--blank-lines-after-commas
See [Declarations].
-bl
--braces-after-if-line
if
, etc.See [Statements].
-bliN
--brace-indentN
See [Statements].
-bls
--braces-after-struct-decl-line
struct
declaration lines.See [Declarations].
-br
--braces-on-if-line
if
, etc. and structure declarations.See [Statements].
-brs
--braces-on-struct-decl-line
struct
declaration line.See [Declarations].
-bs
--Bill-Shannon
--blank-before-sizeof
sizeof
and its argument.See [Statements]
-cN
--comment-indentationN
See [Comments].
-cbiN
--case-brace-indentationN
See [Statements].
-cdN
--declaration-comment-columnN
See [Comments].
-cdb
--comment-delimiters-on-blank-lines
See [Comments].
-ce
--cuddle-else
}
.See [Comments].
-ciN
--continuation-indentationN
See [Statements].
-cliN
--case-indentationN
See [Statements].
-cpN
--else-endif-columnN
#else
and
#endif
statements in column N.See [Comments].
-cs
--space-after-cast
See [Statements].
-dN
--line-comments-indentationN
See [Comments].
-diN
--declaration-indentationN
See [Declarations].
-fc1
--format-first-column-comments
See [Comments].
-fca
--format-all-comments
See [Comments]
-gnu
--gnu-style
See [Common styles].
-hnl
--honour-newlines
See [Breaking long lines].
-iN
--indent-levelN
See [Indentation].
-ipN
--parameter-indentationN
See [Indentation].
-kr
--k-and-r-style
See [Common styles].
-lN
--line-lengthN
See [Breaking long lines].
-lcN
--comment-line-lengthN
See [Comments].
-lp
--continue-at-parentheses
See [Indentation].
-lps
--leave-preprocessor-space
#
and preprocessor directive.See [Indentation].
-nbad
--no-blank-lines-after-declarations
See [Blank lines].
-nbap
--no-blank-lines-after-procedures
See [Blank lines].
-nbbo
--break-after-boolean-operator
See [Breaking long lines].
-nbc
--no-blank-lines-after-commas
See [Declarations].
-ncdb
--no-comment-delimiters-on-blank-lines
See [Comments].
-nce
--dont-cuddle-else
}
and else
.See [Statements].
-ncs
--no-space-after-casts
See [Statements].
-nfc1
--dont-format-first-column-comments
See [Comments].
-nfca
--dont-format-comments
See [Comments].
-nhnl
--ignore-newlines
See [Breaking long lines].
-nip
--no-parameter-indentation
See [Indentation]
-nlp
--dont-line-up-parentheses
See [Statements].
-npcs
--no-space-after-function-call-names
See [Statements].
-npsl
--dont-break-procedure-type
See [Declarations].
-nsc
--dont-star-comments
*
character at the left of comments.See [Comments].
-nsob
--leave-optional-blank-lines
See [Blank lines].
-nss
--dont-space-special-semicolon
-ss
.See [Statements].
-nv
--no-verbosity
See [Miscellaneous options].
-orig
--original
See [Common styles].
-npro
--ignore-profile
.indent.pro
files.See [Invoking indent].
-pcs
--space-after-procedure-calls
(
.See [Statements].
-piN
--paren-indentationN
-psl
--procnames-start-lines
See [Declarations].
-sbiN
--struct-brace-indentationN
See [Statements].
-sc
--start-left-side-of-comments
*
character at the left of comments.See [Comments].
-sob
--swallow-optional-blank-lines
See [Blank lines].
-ss
--space-special-semicolon
for
and while
statments,
force a blank before the semicolon.See [Statements].
-st
--standard-output
See [Invoking indent].
-T
indent
the name of typenames.See [Declarations].
-tsN
--tab-sizeN
See [Indentation].
-v
--verbose
See [Miscellaneous options].
-version
indent
.See [Miscellaneous options].
--blank-lines-after-block-comments -bbb --blank-lines-after-commas -bc --blank-lines-after-declarations -bad --blank-lines-after-procedures -bap --braces-after-if-line -bl --brace-indent -bli --braces-after-struct-decl-line -bls --braces-on-if-line -br --braces-on-struct-decl-line -brs --break-after-boolean-operator -nbbo --break-before-boolean-operator -bbo --case-indentation -cliN --case-brace-indentation -cbiN --comment-delimiters-on-blank-lines -cdb --comment-indentation -cN --continuation-indentation -ciN --continue-at-parentheses -lp --cuddle-else -ce --declaration-comment-column -cdN --declaration-indentation -diN --dont-break-procedure-type -npsl --dont-cuddle-else -nce --dont-format-comments -nfca --dont-format-first-column-comments -nfc1 --dont-line-up-parentheses -nlp --dont-space-special-semicolon -nss --dont-star-comments -nsc --else-endif-column -cpN --format-all-comments -fca --format-first-column-comments -fc1 --gnu-style -gnu --honour-newlines -hnl --ignore-newlines -nhnl --ignore-profile -npro --indent-level -iN --k-and-r-style -kr --leave-optional-blank-lines -nsob --leave-preprocessor-space -lps --line-comments-indentation -dN --line-length -lN --no-blank-lines-after-commas -nbc --no-blank-lines-after-declarations -nbad --no-blank-lines-after-procedures -nbap --no-comment-delimiters-on-blank-lines -ncdb --no-space-after-casts -ncs --no-parameter-indentation -nip --no-space-after-function-call-names -npcs --no-verbosity -nv --original -orig --parameter-indentation -ipN --paren-indentation -piN --procnames-start-lines -psl --space-after-cast -cs --space-after-procedure-calls -pcs --space-special-semicolon -ss --standard-output -st --start-left-side-of-comments -sc --struct-brace-indentation -sbiN --swallow-optional-blank-lines -sob --tab-size -tsN --verbose -v
+
is being superseded by --
to
maintain consistency with the POSIX standard.