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" >