This library lets elisp authors easily define an idiomatic command to reformat the current buffer using a command-line program, together with an optional minor mode which can apply this command automatically on save. By default, reformatter.el expects programs to read from stdin and write to stdout, and you should prefer this mode of operation where possible. If this isn't possible with your particular formatting program, refer to the options for `reformatter-define', and see the examples in the package's tests. As an example, let's define a reformat command that applies the "dhall format" command. We'll assume here that we've already defined a variable `dhall-command' which holds the string name or path of the dhall executable: (reformatter-define dhall-format :program dhall-command :args '("format")) The `reformatter-define' macro expands to code which generates `dhall-format-buffer' and `dhall-format-region' interactive commands, and a local minor mode called `dhall-format-on-save-mode'. The :args" and :program expressions will be evaluated at runtime, so they can refer to variables that may (later) have a buffer-local value. A custom variable will be generated for the mode lighter, with the supplied value becoming the default. The generated minor mode allows idiomatic per-directory or per-file customisation, via the "modes" support baked into Emacs' file-local and directory-local variables mechanisms. For example, users of the above example might add the following to a project-specific .dir-locals.el file: ((dhall-mode (mode . dhall-format-on-save))) See the documentation for `reformatter-define', which provides a number of options for customising the generated code. Library authors might like to provide autoloads for the generated code, e.g.: ;;;###autoload (autoload 'dhall-format-buffer "current-file" nil t) ;;;###autoload (autoload 'dhall-format-region "current-file" nil t) ;;;###autoload (autoload 'dhall-format-on-save-mode "current-file" nil t)