Yeah, I've had some growing pains myself, but I've found enough that I really like about Eclipse that it's been my only IDE for several months now. The stuff HS+ had that I liked wasn't that critical to my daily workflow, I've found. I set up snippets for a lot of my tags so the indenting is maintained.
On 6/8/06, Ben Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rob... Its upsetting that I just took the morning to try and get > comfortable with Eclipse (and move away from my girl-on-the-side, Homesite) > and already I have hit a road block that is fairly significant in terms of > productivity. I have to start backspacing every tab that get's created, I > might go insane. > > -ben > ....................... > Ben Nadel > www.bennadel.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:06 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFEclipse tabbing > > As mentioned, I've attached my original post. And it was Spike, not Mark, > who kicked in the source code comments. I don't know whether it's possible > to reference a thread URL for this mailing list (or if so, how to do it), so > I've added the relevant posts inline... > > My original question: > > Has anyone found a way to successfully turn off "smart indenting" in > CFEclipse? I have it unchecked in preferences, but that doesn't seem to > make any difference. For that matter, I should clarify what I'm doing since > I'm not even entirely sure that that's the correct setting. > > For long tags with numerous attributes, I prefer to place each attribute > after the first on its own line: > > <input type="text" > id="mytext" > name="mytext" > value="" > ... > /> > > When I do so in CFEclipse, however, instead of automatically indenting to > the level of the line above the new line is indented one level deeper. For > each line it's only one extra key press to back it up, but that's a lot of > "one extra key presses" on any given page of code. > > Is this a bug or am I trying to use it incorrectly? > > Thanks. > > ====================================================== > > A snippet from one of Spike's responses: > > -- SNIP -- > To complicate matters further, the code that does the smart indenting and > auto indenting is mingled with the code that does the auto closing of <, > auto step-through of ",',# and >, and all manner of other things that you > might not notice happening. > > The whole thing really needs to be refactored because at the minute it's > very hard to follow and almost impossible to modify without introducing > bugs. > > On 6/8/06, Ben Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got a quick questions. I can't seem to get the tabbing right in > > Eclipse. I like to format tags like: > > > > <cfsetting > > showdebugoutput="false" > > requesttimeout="XX" > > /> > > > > If I try to do this (without backspacing anything), eclipse does this: > > > > <cfsetting > > showdebugoutput="false" > > requesttimeout="XX" /> > > > > As you can see the tabbing is CRAZY!! I tried turning off "smart > > indenting", and turning it on as well, neither of them seem to make a > > difference. Is there another tabbing feature that I am not seeing > somewhere? > > > > Also, is there a way that I can get CTRL+DELETE to delete all white > > space in front of it (like in HomeSite). In Eclipse it only seems to > > delete the next word. I tried removing the command (in the key setup) > > to delete the next word, but it still only does this behavior. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ....................... > > Ben Nadel > > www.bennadel.com > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:242944 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
