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Komodo's code formatting system can be used to launch external code formatting applications on your source code.

• Go to Komodo's formatter preferences
  You can use Komodo's Edit->Preferences to bring up the Komodo preferences dialog, then select the Formatters category.
• Create new formatter
  Use the green (+) button to start creating a new formatter. Fill in the Name and Language fields and then in the Formatter menu select the Other Formatters->Generic command-line formatter. This will show further configurable options to customize the formatter command. Generally this will be the name of the executable (example "tidy") and the options that are passed to this executable. The actual code to be formatted will be passed via stdin.
• Example Language Formatters
  • PHP - PHPBeautifier
    JeffG has a great blog post on setting up PHP Beautifier here:
    http://www.openkomodo.com/blogs/jeffg/using-php-beautifier-komodo-ide
  • Ruby - RubyBeautifier
    You can download the Arachnoid Ruby Script Beautifier from here:
    http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/rubyBeautifier.html
    In the configurable options, specify:
    Executable to use: ruby
    Command-line arguments: /path/to/rbeautify.rb -
    Note: The dash "-" at the end is significant, as it means the ruby code input is sent via stdin.
  • Python - Reindent
    Reindent is a part of the Python source (though it's often not included in a regular installation). You can download it from here:
    http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/reindent.py
    In the configurable options, specify:
    Executable to use: python
    Command-line arguments: /path/to/reindent.py

    Note: If you receive a Python error about of unable to import the "tokenize" module, try creating a shell script or batch file that unsets the PYTHONHOME environment variable, example shell script:

    #!/bin/sh
    unset PYTHONHOME
    $@