autoformat and nopaste plugins join padre's nest

after much hesitation, i finally decided to migrate the autoformat and nopaste plugins to padre's svn repository.

not that i prefer svn - after all, i used git for a reason when i started those plugins - but it's handy to benefit of padre's translators for my plugins for free... (btw, if your language is not supported, you're more than welcome to join padre's development team!)

but the nice thing is that gabor told me that if padre gets a good enough git plugin for padre, he will switch padre's repository to git!

good enough here means that even people unfamiliar with git can use it, whatever the platform (yup, windows, i'm staring at you)... and btw, do you remember that there's an on-going contest for best padre plugin?

so what are you waiting for?

autoformat within padre

one of the things i care about in an editor is the ability to reformat a paragraph. it's really handy if you update your file here and there, and you're left with lines of 15 (or 100) characters.

vim has a nice builtin paragraph-reformatting tool (with gqip), and so does emacs (alt+q iirc). but padre (the perl ide) lacks one...

so i decided to create a plugin that would bring this ability to padre. moreover, it was the opportunity to discover padre's plugin subsystem.

writing the plugin was incredibly easy. especially since i'm standing on the shoulders of giants: i'm reusing the formidable text::autoformat module. in fact, adding the standard build stuff & boilerplate was really what took most of my time... ok, that and fighting a bit with wx stc, which provides everything but the methods i wanted. :-)

all in all, padre::plugin::autoformat is now propagating on cpan. to use it:

1. install it using your favorite method
2. open padre
3. activate the plugin (plugins / plugin manager / autoformat / enable). you only need to do this once, since padre will remember the enabled plugins.
   
4. open a file
5. type ctrl+shift+j to autoformat either current selection (or current paragraph if nothing is selected).
   

enjoy it...