[Bluej-discuss] formatter extension?

[Hedley Finger]

John:

At Saturday, 13/10/2007, 01:50 PM;, you wrote:
>One specifies one's preferences
>for source code style, chooses the "format" option, and voila,
>the code is reformatted according to the style.
>
>There are also several plug-ins for Eclipse that enhance upon
>the built in formatter.  I had a brainstorm of grabbing one of
>the open source plug-ins and converting it to a BlueJ extension.

I am using Netbeans 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition and it has a similar nifty 
function.  Hack away at your source code, stuff up the indenting, 
mark previously unmarked blocks with {..} pairs, then press 
Crtl-Shift-f and all is pretty again.  So you have my vote.

Perhaps when I understand Java enough, I will build an extension that 
creates a navigation window like Netbeans: a list of all variables 
and methods in a pane; just click one to instantly jump to the spot 
in the source code instead of endless scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. ...

Regards,
Hedley


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