I've decided not to pursue this any further. No objections if anyone else wants to take up the cause.
On 20-07-17 23:20, Alistair Crooks wrote: | Just to get back to the original subject - fully support {} around single | statements - have been doing that in my own code for ages. | | Would be great to have that codified (ha!) | | On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 12:01, Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: | | > On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 13:08:49 -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: | > > It sounds like we need a better tool. FWIW, when actually working on | > > code, I've found that 120 is a better width than 80 -- with 80, there are | > > just too many line breaks. But I don't mean to say that your | > > preference is wrong -- what sucks is that we have to compromise, instead | > > of having tools that present the text the way that we want to consume | > > it without changing anything in the underlying file. E.g. web browsers | > > just reflow the text when you change the window width. Why don't we | > > have this for code editors? | > | > I have seen an editor (I think it was google's Android development | > environment) that even went so far as to recognize some particular | > boilerplate Java code fragments, and abbreviated them. You could unfold | > them if you wanted though. | > | > I wasn't sure if I liked that or hated it. | > | > -Olaf. | > -- | > Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl | > ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on | > \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG" | >