Probably the biggest feature I'd like to see in Idea is a controversial one - a separation between the way the code looks when I'm viewing/editing it and how it looks on disk. Lots of developers end up having lots of different coding styles (this is why Idea has so many code-formatting options), and when working on a multi-developer project, these can conflict. The easy answer is to impose a coding standard, but I'm not convinced that's the right answer. I could get the best of both worlds if I could set up 2 different sets of code-formatting options in Idea, one for view/edit and one for save. My team could easily agree on an on-disk coding standard, as long as we could each have our own individual edit/view code-views. It would be great, because everyone's code would look like to me like it was written in my style, and to everyone else like it was written in their style.
I think this would be a cool feature, although it certainly raises some deeper philosophical questions: If my view could obscure problems with the on-disk version, the editor would be worthless. Is it really useful/correct to have an editor that translates between the code you write and the code that gets dumped to disk? Clearly, it would be better to just have the rest of the world adopt my coding style, but until that happens, this is something I'd like to see. Any chance the details of this feature could be worked out such that we could see something like this someday? mike _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
