Just split the line with \n instead of spaces and alpha sort at build time.
FYI, my (ignores) font settings patch includes a parser/rewriter for NetBeans.conf that does exactly that. -Tim On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 1:40 PM Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I see the build system uses now the rather neat @@metabuild.*@@ > pre-processor directives (or whatever they are called). > > Even in netbeans/nb/ide.launcher/netbeans.conf I see we use > @@metabuild.logcli@@ > > I wonder if there's any plan / way to split the annoyingly long > netbeans_default_options into individual chunks? Maybe generate > netbeans_default_options at build time? > > It seem impossible to notice what changed in netbeans_default_options > based on a diff since it's such a long line. Luckily things get > prepended, so it's not that hard in practice, but still... > > Just my 2c, > > --emi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > -- http://timboudreau.com
