| Reformatting only part of a source file? [message #152330] |
Mon, 05 April 2004 10:01  |
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The eclipse java editors reformat functionality is brilliant, except
for certain cases where one would like to maintain some hand-crafted
formatting, e.g. to maintain some special tabular arrangement of
initializers or some comments that contain some simple "ASCII drawing"
and similar occasions.
In such cases it would be VERY nice, if one could re-format only some
*selected* part of a .java-file. Is that somehow possible? If not, I
am considerung submitting this as a feature request...
Michael
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| Re: Reformatting only part of a source file? [message #152616 is a reply to message #152330] |
Tue, 06 April 2004 04:13  |
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Michael Moser wrote:
> The eclipse java editors reformat functionality is brilliant, except
> for certain cases where one would like to maintain some hand-crafted
> formatting, e.g. to maintain some special tabular arrangement of
> initializers or some comments that contain some simple "ASCII drawing"
> and similar occasions.
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> In such cases it would be VERY nice, if one could re-format only some
> *selected* part of a .java-file. Is that somehow possible? If not, I
> am considerung submitting this as a feature request...
Simply select the lines you want to format and choose Source->Format.
This will format the selection.
Note that comments can only be formatted as a whole currently, i.e. if
your selection includes part of a comment, the entire comment will be
formatted.
You should also try the "Format Element" command which is not available
from the menus but can be bound in the keybindings dialog. I use it
frequently to beautify a javadoc comment or single method without
changing everything else.
-tom
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