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In Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter, I can edit the format. In the Parentheses positions section, there is an option for try clause. I set that to "Separate lines" and the formatter leaves the ( on the same line as the "try". For example, I would like the formatter to change the code from this... try ( ... ) ... ... to this ... try ( ... ) ... Please let me know what settings to change to accomplish this. If this is not possible, please add the ability.
There's no such setting at the moment. I guess it could fit into the New Lines > In control statements section. But I'm not convinced the option would be useful/popular enough to implement it. And it would be a weird outlier - why would you put a line break before opening parenthesis in try statements, but not in catch statements, for loops, or method arguments lists for that matter?
> Why would you put a line break before opening parenthesis in try statements, but not in catch statements, for loops, or method arguments lists for that matter? Some times try-with-resources blocks have 1 declared and initialized variable. Depending on the length of the initialization code, this might all fit nicely on 1 line. Some times try-with-resources blocks have 3+ declared and initialized variables. The code is much easier to read if all of these initialization statements are on each line. As such, the code formatter does this. try ( InputStream file = Files.newInputStream(...); InputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(file); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(buffer, ...); ) { while (true) { line = reader.readLine(); ... } } Notice how the ( does not match the Allman style of {}. By implementing this feature request, the ( matches the Allman style. try ( InputStream file = Files.newInputStream(...); InputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(file); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(buffer, ...); ) { while (true) { line = reader.readLine(); ... } } What about catch statements? Typically there are not very many exceptions in the catch. If there were, then I would probably want each exception on its own line as such... (Note: This is a contrived example. I am not sure where these exceptions could all be caught in real code.) catch ( ExecutionException | InterruptedException | InvocationException | IOException | ParseException | URISyntaxException e ) { ... } As for "for" loops, the 3 parts of the for loop are rarely long enough to cause a problem for wrapping. As for method parameters, I think the formatter does this already... (Note: This example has several other problems in it. Please ignore that and just focus on the wrapping.) public void myMethod ( String arg0, String arg1, String arg2, String arg3, String arg4, String arg5, String arg6, String arg7, String arg8 ) { ... }
(In reply to Nathan Reynolds from comment #2) > As for method parameters, I think the formatter does this already... AFAIK this is not possible. Maybe you've found some workaround if you don't have this problem? Maybe it could also be applied to try statements? :) I guess a new checkbox in the "Parenthesis position" section called "Insert new line before opening parenthesis when separating lines" would be general enough and not too much clutter. But I wonder how many people would want to use it... I would be more convinced if other IDEs made it possible or there were some questions about it around the internet.
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