1 # rustfmt [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt)
3 A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines.
5 If you'd like to help out (and you should, it's a fun project!), see
6 [Contributing.md](Contributing.md).
11 > **Note:** this method currently requires you to be running cargo 0.6.0 or
15 cargo install --git https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt
18 or if you're using [`multirust`](https://github.com/brson/multirust)
21 multirust run nightly cargo install --git https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt
25 ## Running Rustfmt from your editor
27 * [Vim](http://johannh.me/blog/rustfmt-vim.html)
28 * [Emacs](https://github.com/fbergroth/emacs-rustfmt)
32 ## How to build and test
34 First make sure you've got Rust **1.4.0** or greater available, then:
36 `cargo build` to build.
38 `cargo test` to run all tests.
40 `cargo run -- filename` to run on a file, if the file includes out of line
41 modules, then we reformat those too. So to run on a whole module or crate, you
42 just need to run on the top file.
44 You'll probably want to specify the write mode. Currently, there are the
45 replace, overwrite, display and coverage modes. The replace mode is the default
46 and overwrites the original files after renaming them. In overwrite mode,
47 rustfmt does not backup the source files. To print the output to stdout, use the
48 display mode. The write mode can be set by passing the `--write-mode` flag on
51 `cargo run -- filename --write-mode=display` prints the output of rustfmt to the
55 ## What style does Rustfmt use?
57 Rustfmt is designed to be very configurable. You can create a TOML file called
58 rustfmt.toml, place it in the project directory and it will apply the options
59 in that file. See `cargo run -- --config-help` for the options which are available,
60 or if you prefer to see source code, [src/config.rs].
62 By default, Rustfmt uses a style which (mostly) confirms to the
63 [Rust style guidelines](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc/style).
64 There are many details which the style guidelines do not cover, and in these
65 cases we try to adhere to a style similar to that used in the
66 [Rust repo](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust). Once Rustfmt is more complete, and
67 able to re-format large repositories like Rust, we intend to go through the Rust
68 RFC process to nail down the default style in detail.
70 If there are styling choices you don't agree with, we are usually happy to add
71 options covering different styles. File an issue, or even better, submit a PR.
76 * For things you do not want rustfmt to mangle, use one of
80 #[cfg_attr(rustfmt, rustfmt_skip)]
82 * When you run rustfmt, place a file named rustfmt.toml in target file
83 directory or its parents to override the default settings of rustfmt.
84 * After successful compilation, a `rustfmt` executable can be found in the