Hi friends!

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Hi friends!

I've always used and I like the Delphi auto-formatter feature to realign my code. I know some dislike that but me I like it. It makes code aligned fine, uniform and constant and I am happy with that.

BUT sometimes I would like the formatter to ignore a section. For example, some section with tables where I intentionnally include spaces to keep things aligned like image attached.

But when I will reformat this, I will lose all these aligments I did.

My question is "Is there a way to type something that will instruct the formatter to ignore that section?" I've seen other program editor like NetBeans where we can add stuff like "// " and it instructs the editor to collapse the section between these delimiters.

May we have the same with the Delphi Editor to avoid auto-formatting on a section? Something like:
//
My        code        with        spaces        anywhere    
//

Please, don't answer me to don't do auto-formatting because I like more the other advantages it gave me than this annoying thing... And also, I don't wish to have for exampe my tables in another file and do a {$INCLUDE... }. I already tried but it's annoying to have spread things like that everywhere...

Maybe I am asking too much! :-)

Dennis.

Comments

  1. Stefan GlienkeNovember 12, 2015 at 9:51 AM

    No

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  2. Bill MeyerNovember 12, 2015 at 9:51 AM

    The formatters in GExperts and CnPack both support flagging sections to prevent formatting in certain areas. To mark the beginning of such an area, you type in {(} and for the end, {)}. Very nice.

    Update: Google plus intercepts the sequences. The first should be { ( * } and the second { * ) }, but without the spaces.

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  3. Denis BissonNovember 12, 2015 at 10:02 AM

    Bill Meyer Hoping a miracle I tried it in Delphi 10 Seattle but... No surprise, it did not work. :-( But thanks for mentionning it exists somewhere else. I feel less alone. :-)

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  4. Bill MeyerNovember 12, 2015 at 10:32 AM

    Denis Bisson Tried in what? GExperts or CnPack? For GExperts, the formatter is maintained by +Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch), and I do not know whether he has resolved possible issues with Seattle. If you used CnPack, I do not know whether it will work properly in Seattle.

    In GExperts, the character sequences for preventing formatting are settable. In the formatter configuration, see the Misc page of the dialog.

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  5. Dalija PrasnikarNovember 13, 2015 at 4:45 AM

    This feature request has been sitting in QC for five years now http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=89197

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  6. Denis BissonNovember 13, 2015 at 1:14 PM

    Yes, that's what I was hoping that was already present... I added my vote. One vote won't change the world but it cost nothing. :-)

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  7. Bill MeyerNovember 13, 2015 at 1:27 PM

    Denis Bisson It cost nothing, and will likely accomplish the same.

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  8. Denis BissonNovember 14, 2015 at 6:39 PM

    Bill Meyer
    I meant that I tried in Delphi editor, that's was I meant by "hoping a miracle...". Ha! Ha!

    I took the time to download, install and tried GExperts. I was about to replied you that there is no code formatter there except a few kind of action on selected lines... But I remembered you wrote the name of +Thomas Mueller and went to his site and realize it was a kind of non-official add-on. I gave it a try. At first look it seems to have less options than in Delphi... BUT it has the feature of to define blocks for non-reformat AND another thing I was not able to configure to my wish with Delphi. SO I will give it a try to that tool in the next days.

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your answer. It was not a live-or-die problem for me but... it's something I like. Code formatting make my eyes happy!

    Dennis.

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