Nimpsort

This is a simple formatting tool that alphabetically sorts top-level import statements in Nim source files. It currently supports regular comma-separated imports, bracketed imports, and prefixed imports. It will also preserve (and properly align) postfix comments, if any.

Installation

Using Nimble

nimble install nimpsort

Compiling from source

nim c -d:release src/nimpsort.nim

Downloading binary

Pre-built binaries for Linux (AMD64) are available on the release page.

Example

Given the file myprog.nim:

import std/[os, logging, tables, strutils]
import ./[common, action, target, config] # aligned comment
import pkg/[regex, cligen]# misaligned comment
import sequtils, options  # another one

nimpsort myprog.nim will turn it into:

import std/[logging, os, strutils, tables]
import ./[action, common, config, target] # aligned comment
import pkg/[cligen, regex] # misaligned comment
import options, sequtils # another one

NOTE: nimpsort does not currently support, but will ignore, multi-line import statements:

import
  terminal,
  strutils,
  os