Re: [seam-dev] formatting the reference doc source
The trouble is the XML formatter in eclipse has very little customizability (spaces vs
tabs, gutter are the only ones I've found that are useful) (and none on a per-project
level) and certainly can't be told NOT to put all elements on a new line. So if we use
it, it ends up looking so nasty that we should just invest the time to make it look ok.
There are some better XML editors out there for sure which *can* apply ok formatting (but
never found a great one as Dan says).
So, here's a challenge for readers: find a formatting template that will take a file
which has been (lovingly) hand formatted, like
https://svn.jboss.org/repos/weld/doc/trunk/reference/en-US/ri-spi.xml and not screw it all
up (there might be a couple of errors in there) :-)
On 16 Apr 2010, at 04:31, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
Perhaps we can agree on an Eclipse autoformat style to use, just to
make things slightly easier to make consistent?
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 15 Apr 2010, at 17:49, Dan Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> The easiest option I know is just to use the Eclipse XML editor and never use the
autoformat feature.
>
> Right, but if you turn off the autoformat feature, then who is responsible for the
wrapping? Do you have to hit return when the sentence reaches the right margin line
yes.
> and then space, space, space to get it to line up again?
no, it can do that automatically :-)
> I'm trying to find a way where you don't have to think. You can just type
and it only formats what is necessary. If that's how it works, then I need to give it
another chance.
I never found a plugin for eclipse to do this. I don't want to move outside my IDE to
edit these files.
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