Description Lee Breisacher 2002-08-14 13:34:18 EDT

Here's an idea that removes all "religious" arguing about how to properly 
format Java code. (I often see arguments even within a single development team 
about code formatting - one developer prefers it this way, another prefers it 
that way. Standards are decided on, but there's often ongoing discussions about 
this detail or that). Anyway, here's the idea: When a file is saved, 
some "canonical" format is used, so all saved files have the same format. But 
when a file is viewed, the individual's formatting preferences are applied. So 
each individual can have their own formatting preferences, but their 
preferences do not affect what gets saved in the file - just what they see in 
their eclipse code editor. Bottom line is: there is a clean separation between 
an individual's formatting preferences (which do not affect anyone else) and 
the saved-file format. I suppose one additional tweak on this could be: the 
saved file format could also be controlled by a set of formatting preferences - 
perhaps shared by a development group.