Changing zprint's behavior

There are two steps to changing the way that zprint formats Clojure information.

1. Create an options map that configures zprint to behave the way you want

There are a large number of options maps configuration elements which can be changed to get zprint to format Clojure source or data in a way different from the default and more to your liking.

There are several ways to determine how to change the options map:

• See below for references to some commonly configured changes
• See the reference information, which contains documentation on everything that can be changed
• Submit an issue and ask how to configure zprint to do what you want

I want to configure zprint to change...

• how user defined functions are formatted
• the indentation in lists
• the configuration to track the "community" standard
• how blank lines in source are handled
• how map keys are formatted
• the colors used for formatting source
• how the second element of a pair is indented
• how comments are handled

2. Get the options map recognized by zprint when formatting

Different formatting regimes accept options map information from different places.

Formatting whole files

When using either the pre-built binaries, or the uberjar (with or without appcds acceleration), options maps may be read from:

$HOME/.zprintrc

The ~/.zprintrc (also known as $HOME/.zprintrc) file will be read when zprint is first invoked. You can put options maps changes in that file and they will always be used (unless overridden by a later options map).

:zprint key for lein-zprint

If you are using lein-zprint, you can put an options map in the :zprint key in project.clj.

./.zprintrc in the current working directory

If you have configured {:cwd-zprintrc? true} in your ~/.zprintrc or on the command line options map, zprint will look in the current working directory (cwd) for a .zprintrc file.

Search for .zprintrc

If you have configured {:search-config? true} in your ~/.zprintc or on the command line options map, zprint will look in the current working directory for a .zprintrc file. If it finds one, it will use it. If it doesn't find one, it will look in the parent of the directory for a .zprintrc file and use it if it finds one. zprint will keep looking up the directory tree for a .zprintrc file, using the first one it finds.

Command line options map

zprint will accept an options map on the command line every time it is called. These options will only be used for that particular call.

Comments in the file

You can alter the way that zprint formats a single function or any part of an entire file by including comments in the file which contain zprint comment formatting directives.

When using zprint inside another program or at the REPL

When using zprint as a library, it will look for configuration information:

On the first call to zprint

$HOME/.zprintrc

The ~/.zprintrc (also known as $HOME/.zprintrc) file will be read when zprint is first invoked. You can put options maps changes in that file and they will always be used (unless overridden by a later options map).

./.zprintrc in the current working directory

If you have configured {:cwd-zprintrc? true} in your ~/.zprintrc zprint will look in the current working directory (cwd) for a .zprintrc file.

Search for .zprintrc

If you have configured {:search-config? true} in your ~/.zprintc zprint will look in the current working directory for a .zprintrc file. If it finds one, it will use it. If it doesn't find one, it will look in the parent of the directory for a .zprintrc file and use it if it finds one. zprint will keep looking up the directory tree for a .zprintrc file, using the first one it finds.

Whenever executed

set-options!

A call to set-options! containing an options map will be remembered until another call to set-options! changes the internal options map again.

configure-all!

You can re-initialize zprint by calling configure-all!, which will cause all existing information remembered from set-options calls to be forgotten. A call to configure-all! will cause zprint to reconfigure itself by using all available external configuration (see the places immediately above).

Options map on a call to zprint

Every time you call zprint to format something, the third argument can be an options map, which is used for only the formatting being done by that call.