[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Jave 3.3 code formatter question

[Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Paul,
sorry, currently there is no way to do what you want. Would you agree 
with me, that formatting you'd like to have is very specific? I wonder 
what should be a more general rule, that would fit your needs.
Regarding inserting "hard" line break. Where would you actually expect 
it? After 29th column, after 2 argument, after second "," in line?
Maybe it would be better to select certain types of source code (like 
method declarations), that should not be formatted.
I'd say, that you could raise an enhancement request here 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=JDT&component=Text
however keep in mind, that there are also voices, that formatter is 
already too difficult to configure because of huge number of options it 
offers.

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to invoke the code formatter when I save a file, but I'm 
> running into one annoyance I can't seem to work around.  I want to 
> format method parameters manually, e.g.
>
> void myMethod(int a, int b,
>               int c, double d) {
> ...
> }
>
> but Eclipse 3.3 won't let me.  If I have the formatter on, it insists 
> on unwrapping the declaration to
>
> void myMethod(int a, int b, int c, double d) {
> ...
> }
>
> and rewrapping if that violates the line length.  This is with the 
> relevant formatter preference set to no wrapping; any of the other 
> wrapping options wraps it differently, but not the way I want.
>
> The smart money says I'm missing something.  Is there a way to tell 
> the code formatter to ignore parameter lists when formatting the code, 
> or a way to insert a "hard" line break that is inviolable?
>
> TIA,
> Paul