CL Auto-formatting (was Indent Feature)

Vern,

Sounds like you are hitting a bug.
Would you kindly provide a sample scenario, including your CL
auto-formatting preferences?

thanks,

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 29/03/2006 09:32:41 AM:

> As you say, there is autoformatting now, but it takes leaving the
> line you are on. Or F4 and return. That is better, maybe, or at
> least different from SEU, where the formatting occurs only when you
> press F4. But autoformatting can bite pretty nastily sometimes - a
> command already distributed across multiple lines can get thoroughly
> screwed up if you make a change on line 1, which, of course, gets
> processed by the autoformatter with no regard for the continuation.
> So your idea is nice, I think. I like the idea that I can turn off
> autoformat, to avoid keying frustrations, then take a keyboard
> stroke (please, not a right-click menu item that takes 5 clicks to
> get to what I want) to do the format as defined in Preferences.
>
> SUGGESTION TO IBM: Fix the problem where the formatting ignores
> continued lines.
>
> Thanks
> Vern
>