Description Jeff Myers 2006-02-16 09:44:25 EST

The Line Wrapping rules for formatting Java code are already quite flexible, but I'd really like it if there was a threshold value that's used to determine the number of items necessary for the customized rules are applied, or whether the default line wrapping would be in effect. For example, if the threshold value was 4, and the Method Declaration -> Parameters option was set to "Wrap all elements except the first element if not necessary"... the formatter would format the following:

public void foo(int a, int b, int c);
public void bar(int a,
                int b,
                int c,
                int d);

because foo has three parameters, thus under the threshold value, whereas bar has four parameters - and the formatting rule is applied.

The threshold value could either be universal across all of the Line Wrapping settings (with 4 or 5 seeming to be a good default where all of the circumstances where formatting rules settings become necessary), or it could be a value tied to each individual formatting setting.