I was thinking of suggesting something along the same lines myself, but I believe this
would better form a separate product that sits
between any editors (such as Idea) and whatever VCS is being used. That way you don't
even have to stipulate that all developers even
use the same development tools -- another point that's hard to enforce. I'd hate to
go back to JBuilder now! Plus it would also other file
types that cannot (or are best not) developed in Idea such as C++ files, HTML etc.
that a project may be using.
It could have a CVS style interface, for example. Any editor could use it believing
that it was interacting with CVS directly,
but the program would apply coding styles before delegating the real repository work
off to the actual CVS or other VCS? It would
apply a repository coding style when sending to the repository and apply a personal
style when reading back. You could
have different preferred coding styles for different file types.
Most importantly, it would finally banish the tab versus space conflicts!
If the Idea guys are not interested in providing such a system, then perhaps a few of
the people who contribute to this
list (myself included) could consider getting together to discuss the possiblity of
creating such a product, open-source? Unless
someone knows of one already?
Paul.
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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
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