> What I don't like about IDEs is that they often gratuitously format > your code, assuming everyone must have the same preferences, and > there's no way to configure it (or at least few people do). For > instance, in several of the ESME files I can already see that > indentation spaces are substituted by 8 tabs, which looks pretty awful > with my settings (tab=2 spaces). Besides, this is against any Scala > conventions that I've seen.
To clarify, I don't mean that I don't recommend IDEs, I just think it's harder to solve the problem of more or less uniform style. Many IDEs are flexible enough to configure formatting details on a fine-grained level. The problem is, we can't force everyone to use the same IDE, or to use an IDE at all, for that matter :) It would be interesting to have a command-line tool to do optional formatting. I don't see anything like that for Scala, which is similar to what e.g. Jalopy did for Java.
