## Quick start
-You must be using a nightly compiler toolchain.
+You must be using the latest nightly compiler toolchain.
To install:
or if you're using [Rustup](https://www.rustup.rs/)
```
+rustup update
rustup run nightly cargo install rustfmt-nightly
```
binary and library targets of your crate.
You'll probably want to specify the write mode. Currently, there are modes for
-diff, replace, overwrite, display, coverage, and checkstyle.
+`diff`, `replace`, `overwrite`, `display`, `coverage`, `checkstyle`, and `plain`.
-* `replace` Is the default and overwrites the original files after creating backups of the files.
-* `overwrite` Overwrites the original files _without_ creating backups.
+* `overwrite` Is the default and overwrites the original files _without_ creating backups.
+* `replace` Overwrites the original files after creating backups of the files.
* `display` Will print the formatted files to stdout.
+* `plain` Also writes to stdout, but with no metadata.
* `diff` Will print a diff between the original files and formatted files to stdout.
Will also exit with an error code if there are any differences.
* `checkstyle` Will output the lines that need to be corrected as a checkstyle XML file,
The write mode can be set by passing the `--write-mode` flag on
the command line. For example `rustfmt --write-mode=display src/filename.rs`
-`cargo fmt` uses `--write-mode=replace` by default.
+`cargo fmt` uses `--write-mode=overwrite` by default.
If you want to restrict reformatting to specific sets of lines, you can
use the `--file-lines` option. Its argument is a JSON array of objects
* If you're having issues compiling Rustfmt (or compile errors when trying to
install), make sure you have the most recent version of Rust installed.
+* If you get an error like `error while loading shared libraries` while starting
+ up rustfmt you should try the following:
+
+On Linux:
+
+```
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(rustc --print sysroot)/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+```
+
+On MacOS:
+
+```
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(rustc --print sysroot)/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+```
+
+On Windows (Git Bash/Mingw):
+
+```
+export PATH=$(rustc --print sysroot)/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/:$PATH
+```
+
+(Substitute `x86_64` by `i686` and `gnu` by `msvc` depending on which version of rustc was used to install rustfmt).
## License