+1 On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:13:52 -0500, "schmoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
