[Gambas-user] Making code pretty

[Benoît Minisini]

> On 08/05/2011 12:02 PM, Ron wrote:
> > It's not only eye candy, it's also a practical thing.
> > If you have a bigger public project under svn, you don't want that the
> > removal of one isolated space character on a empty line somewhere
> > generates a commit change.
> > 
> > So I  remove them all in my projects while writing code.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ron_2nd.
> > 
> > 'Pretty' is in the eye of the beholder. I write my code so it is easy to
> > read and easy see the structure of the code, spaces and empty lines are
> > therefore used extensively. Since the compiled code is not affected by
> > them what's the problem?
> 
> Ideally there would be a menu rather than a one-size-fits-all command
> (as there currently is). These options could be checked or unchecked as
> the user sees fit.
> 
> I'm a formatting Nazi. A space at the end of a line, or on an "empty"
> line, or anything that doesn't fit a rigid set of formatting standards,
> drives me crazy to no end. While I too carefully format my code as I
> write it, to give you an example of this feature's usefulness, I
> recently updated 20 OpenGL gb2 projects (which I didn't write) to gb3. I
> practically set my keyboard on fire and gave myself carpal tunnel
> syndrome just deleting spaces and removing unnecessary empty lines. All
> I can say is thank God the projects weren't longer.
> 
> Also, just to clear things up, no one's suggesting deleting empty lines
> or spaces used in indentation. Just trailing spaces and spaces on empty
> lines, which no one in their right mind would purposely put in their
> code as they serve no purpose. An option to remove consecutive empty
> lines would be nice though (three breaks/CR's would become two).
> 
> Someone earlier mentioned that hitting Enter in the middle of a comment
> line should automatically insert a comment character at the beginning of
> the line being brought down. I just had that happen to me last night
> (normally I don't split comments across multiple lines), and it sounds
> like a good idea. He was right that having to go through the comment and
> correct the case and spacing was a PITA. Here's an example:
> 
>    ' Camera is always exactly in the middle of the render window, so the
> upper-left corner of the center tile (not yet offset)
> 
>    ' Camera is always exactly in the middle of the render window,
>    so the Upper - Left corner Of the center tile(Not yet offset)

Automatic comment insertion is done in revision #3972.

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Benoît Minisini