If you'd like to help out (and you should, it's a fun project!), see
[Contributing.md](Contributing.md).
+## Quick start
+
+To install:
+
+```
+cargo install rustfmt
+```
+
+to run on a cargo project in the current working directory:
+
+```
+cargo fmt
+```
## Installation
> newer.
```
-cargo install --git https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt
+cargo install rustfmt
```
or if you're using [`multirust`](https://github.com/brson/multirust)
```
-multirust run nightly cargo install --git https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt
+multirust run nightly cargo install rustfmt
+```
+
+Usually cargo-fmt, which enables usage of Cargo subcommand `cargo fmt`, is
+installed alongside rustfmt. To only install rustfmt run
+
+```
+cargo install --no-default-features rustfmt
```
+## Running
+
+You can run Rustfmt by just typing `rustfmt filename` if you used `cargo
+install`. This runs rustfmt on the given file, if the file includes out of line
+modules, then we reformat those too. So to run on a whole module or crate, you
+just need to run on the root file (usually mod.rs or lib.rs). Rustfmt can also
+read data from stdin. Alternatively, you can use `cargo fmt` to format all
+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.
+
+* `replace` Is the default and overwrites the original files after creating backups of the files.
+* `overwrite` Overwrites the original files _without_ creating backups.
+* `display` Will print the formatted files to stdout.
+* `diff` Will print a diff between the original files and formatted files to stdout.
+* `checkstyle` Will output the lines that need to be corrected as a checkstyle XML file,
+ that can be used by tools like Jenkins.
+
+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`
+
+You can run `rustfmt --help` for more information.
+
+`cargo fmt` uses `--write-mode=replace` by default.
+
## Running Rustfmt from your editor
* [Emacs](https://github.com/fbergroth/emacs-rustfmt)
* [Sublime Text 3](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/BeautifyRust)
* [Atom](atom.md)
-
+* Visual Studio Code using [RustyCode](https://github.com/saviorisdead/RustyCode) or [vsc-rustfmt](https://github.com/Connorcpu/vsc-rustfmt)
## How to build and test
-First make sure you've got Rust **1.4.0** or greater available, then:
-
`cargo build` to build.
`cargo test` to run all tests.
-`cargo run -- filename` to run on a file, if the file includes out of line
-modules, then we reformat those too. So to run on a whole module or crate, you
-just need to run on the top file.
-
-You'll probably want to specify the write mode. Currently, there are the
-replace, overwrite, display and coverage modes. The replace mode is the default
-and overwrites the original files after renaming them. In overwrite mode,
-rustfmt does not backup the source files. To print the output to stdout, use the
-display mode. The write mode can be set by passing the `--write-mode` flag on
-the command line.
-
-`cargo run -- filename --write-mode=display` prints the output of rustfmt to the
-screen, for example.
+To run rustfmt after this, use `cargo run --bin rustfmt -- filename`. See the
+notes above on running rustfmt.
-## What style does Rustfmt use?
+## Configuring Rustfmt
Rustfmt is designed to be very configurable. You can create a TOML file called
rustfmt.toml, place it in the project directory and it will apply the options
-in that file. See `cargo run -- --config-help` for the options which are available,
-or if you prefer to see source code, [src/config.rs].
+in that file. See `rustfmt --config-help` for the options which are available,
+or if you prefer to see source code, [src/config.rs](src/config.rs).
By default, Rustfmt uses a style which (mostly) conforms to the
[Rust style guidelines](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc/style).
* For things you do not want rustfmt to mangle, use one of
```rust
- #[rustfmt_skip]
- #[cfg_attr(rustfmt, rustfmt_skip)]
+ #[rustfmt_skip] // requires nightly and #![feature(custom_attribute)] in crate root
+ #[cfg_attr(rustfmt, rustfmt_skip)] // works in stable
```
* When you run rustfmt, place a file named rustfmt.toml in target file
directory or its parents to override the default settings of rustfmt.