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In comp.lang.java.advocacy Dale King <KingD@tce.com> wrote:
: "Jon Skeet" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
:> 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.

I believe you also reported that you couldn't get it to behave as you
would like ;-)

: What he really wants is an indenter, not a formatter. All he wants it
: to control is indentation.

I'd be quite happy with a formatter - *if* it worked properly.

The problem is that formatters rarely seem to work properly.
The code they spit out typically looks to me like an undesirable mess.

My #1 appliction is reindenting code as I edit it.  A tool that /just/ did
that would be very useful to me.  However tools that try and control every
aspect of the appearance of the code, don't understand what they are doing
and mess everything up are not very useful to me.  Currently I find Jalopy
falls in the latter category.

I've got a formatting problem with Eclipse:

Currently the "Source.Format" option is often greyed out, and cannot be
used.  I can see no rhyme or reason for it.  Any idea why it might be
greyed out, and inaccessible?
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