Hi Joel, Welcome. I never use the GUI format option because it is very aggressive with parenthesis regardless of the context. E.g. let $num := abs($d) becomes: let $num := abs( $d ) But obviously it should not be messing with strings. I am not aware of any workarounds.
/Andy On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 03:05, Joel Kalvesmaki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I just joined. BaseX is awesome (as y'all know). > > I like CTRL+SHIFT+F for formatting, but it is also messing up string > values, which especially wreaks havoc with regular expressions. That > is... > > let $regex := "(a|z)" > > ...becomes... > > let $regex := "( > a|z > )" > > I didn't see anything in the documentation or archives about > micromanaging the formatting. Is the best practice to avoid formatting > altogether? Or is there a hidden pragma to exempt lines from being > formatted? > > Joel > -- > Joel Kalvesmaki > Director, Text Alignment Network > http://textalign.net >
