Lukas,
On May 9, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Lukas Felber wrote:
I recently looked at the RDT CodeFormat. When I get it
( RubyPlugin.getDefault().getCodeFormatter() ) I get an Instance of
OldCodeFormatter.
As I see it the OldCodeFormatter is not really smart. Is that the
reason it's called OldCodeFormater?
Now I wonder if there are plans about writing a new formatter (or
if there is already one)?
Yes, I recently reworked the infrastructure for the code formatting.
In the process I renamed our code formatter to OldCodeFormatter to
signal that we really need a newer one which can do many more
adjustments and also does everything by building up TextEdits (rather
than just wiping away the old text and replacing it with one single
TextEdit).
There are plans to eventually write a new formatter, but no work has
started yet. I wanted one which could take the AST and do more
advanced modifications based on user preferences, much like the JDT -
so users could tweak the formatting/styling very heavily. One example
would be to turn single line conditionals to modifiers automatically
if they fit in the line length:
if something?
puts "Hello"
end
becomes...
puts "Hello" if something?
Other ideas include automatically converting function calls to skip
the parentheses if the call wouldn't be ambiguous, smartly inserting
newlines to match the line length, regulating empty lines around
constant/method/type definitions, etc.
The CodeFormatter might be a good way for you guys to get an idea of
how to build up TextEdits and spit out alternate syntax for an
equivalent AST. I'd appreciate any help I could get with this.
Thanks,
Chris
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