What if the original code contains styles that IDEA cannot create? (See http://www.intellij.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CodeAlignment).
Eugene "schmoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message aevcee$1i7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:aevcee$1i7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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
