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> I have no idea [...] whether it's "} else {" or "}\nelse {". You never read your own code?

• MereInterest 6y ago
  Format to personal style on open. Format to project style on save. The project style is then consistent, but irrelevant.
  • rightbyte 6y ago
    I have tried this but the formater in Eclipse messes up too many edgecases or nicely column aligned struct definitions to make it work for me.
  • AgentOrange1234 6y ago
    This sounds good and might work for programmers who are working in well-established languages with mature tooling. For me, I’m opening so many kinds of text files, I’d need a parade of parsers and pretty-printers to pull it off. I can’t see it being a realistic option in the near term.
    • bottle2 6y ago
      Same here. In a given week, I’ve opened files across 6 different {programming} languages