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From: Dale King
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:28

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"Jon Skeet" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Tyler <tim@tt1.org> wrote:
> > Previously my approach was to forget about this - and let the formatter
> > take care of it for me.
> >
> > Since starting to use Eclipse I haven't yet found a formatter that
> > works with it that is at all usable.
> >
> > Currently my approach is to let my code get into a mess - on the grounds
> > that *someday* I'll find a decent formatter.
>
> Have you tried Jalopy yet? I don't use it myself (I format my code by
> hand) but I gather it's meant to be pretty flexible.


Yes, he has. We've talked about it. Unfortunately Tim has some weird
conventions that it doesn't support. What he really wants is an indenter,
not a formatter. All he wants it to control is indentation.
--
  Dale King

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