[Gambas-user] Making code pretty

[richard terry]

On Wednesday 10 August 2011 04:34:37 Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 12:29 PM, Johny Provoost wrote:
> > Op 09-08-11 12:48, Benoît Minisini schreef:
> >>> On 8/4/2011 8:22 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to add some options to the "making code pretty" feature in
> >>>> the IDE.
> >>>
> >>> I think that an option to sort procedures by name would be helpful.
> >>
> >> I think such an option should be put outside of the code format routine,
> >> which acts on any part of the source file.
> >>
> >> Anyway, why do you need that option? Is the procedure popup button not
> >> enough?
> >
> > Shame on me.  Working with Gambas for more than 2 years now and never
> > discovered that.
> > My scroll wheel is you forever grateful :>)).
> > No special need for it, but it looks pretty on the screen.
> 
> I use the procedure list all the time but still think an option to sort
> the procedures alphabetically would be useful. I always try to keep them
> all in order as I write them, but often down the road they get renamed.
> I still just scroll up and down a lot as well as using the list. It
> would also be useful for having to deal with someone else's code who
> might have procedures in completely random order. Manually reordering
> more than a few does get tedious.
> 
I agree wholeheartedly.

Richard