> I think this is a bad idea because it only fixes the problem in one tool > (the IDE) while source code is viewed in many, many other places (browsers, > terminal windows, GUI tools such as GitX or tkdiff, emacs, vi, notepad, > email, etc...).
Yeah but that's dangerous reasoning that can keep us stuck in legacy - enough of that already in the Java space I think. Ideally we need a universal AST format, where diffs etc. were truly on the nodes. I seems like the obvious next step, IDE's like NetBeans does lexing and parsing constantly anyway. > If you hide the real content of the file from users, it's pretty much > guaranteed that the source code will look absolutely terrible in any viewer > that doesn't support smart reformatting. That sounds like Lombok, which is a completely different matter than simply soft wrapping according to width of the viewport. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
