How do I keep 'indent' from moving curly braces to the next line?

Question

I have several empty inline function definitions in C++ like so:

class C
{
    void foo(){}
    void bar(){}
};

now if I run indent -st -i4 -nut test.cc in order to just fix the indentation I get

class C
{
    void foo ()
    {
    }
    void bar ()
    {
    }
};

But I just want to fix the indentation without moving curly braces around!

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

Looking at man indent I see using -brf will put braces on the function definition line. If you want it on the if-line as well, you'll need -br.

If your PAGER environment variable is less you can search through man indent with / and the text. So if you do man indent, followed by /braces<ENTER> You'll be able to hop between matches that are informative to you by pressing n repeated.

Edit to make my comment below clearer, this is what I see in man indent

The `-brf´ option formats braces like this:

        int one(void) {
          return 1;
        };

The `-blf´ option formats them like this:

        int one(void)
        {
          return 1;
        };