Thank you for the information. Unfortunately I'm unable to move beyond
Java 8 at this time, at least for some of my projects. I was, however,
able to solve my problem, though I can't say precisely how. When editing
the source code for an older project that was configured with
project-specific formatting, I noticed that the splitting of strings
into multiple lines was working as I had desired. I couldn't, however,
identify any differences between that project's formatting settings and
the global settings I've been trying to use with other projects. By
switching other projects between global and project-specific formatting
settings, I was able to get them to also conform to the desired
behavior. However, some other projects for which NetBeans had been
behaving "badly," which have never had project-specific formatting
settings, also began to behave "correctly." I of course have no
explanation for that whatsoever. Perhaps some artifact of changing
certain settings on certain projects has caused a change in NB's global
behavior. The world may never know.
Kevin Rahe
On 3/31/2026 4:47 AM, Maciej Jaros wrote:
Kevin Rahe (2026-03-30 17:19):
I've used NetBeans for developing Java applications for a couple
decades now. In the code formatting options I had always configured
the editor to format strings split by pressing Enter in the middle of
them to put the plus-sign at the end of the original line and begin
the continued line with a double-quote. However, with later versions
of NetBeans (23, 25 and 28) I can no longer seem to find a setting
that lets it format split strings this way. Instead, it puts the
plus-sign at the beginning of the continued line. I have hundreds of
thousands of lines of code formatted the "old" way and aim to keep
any new code consistent with the existing code. However, this now
takes a fair amount of manual fiddling every time I split a string.
(I write a lot of embedded SQL code so I'm doing this a lot.) Is
there any way to tease the newer versions of NetBeans into working
the way I want them to? Or do I need to create a new feature request
for this? Thank you.
Might not be the answer you are looking for, and pardon me if this is
obvious, but if you can move to JDK 17 or later I would recommend
using JDK 14's """...""" multi-line strings. There's nothing better
for SQL strings, as you can very easily copy and paste from and to
pgAdmin / phpMyAdmin / SSMS.
https://howtodoinjava.com/java14/java-text-blocks/
Cheers,
Maciej Nux
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