Re: [Rails-devel] Patchfiles

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> 
> > Yes.  4 space indents, expand tab characters to spaces is 
> fine by me.
> 
> My current setting is 4 with tabs, but in fact I almost never 
> reformat, 
> because the formatter tends to break lines in ways I don't like.
> I'm pretty good at formatting manually (he boasted), but no doubt
> tabs and spaces get mixed this way.
> 
> But I agree that it's time to sort this out. 

I have committed an experimental formatting standard for Eclipse named
Rails-format.xml (in CVS under 18xx).
It is an export from a new standard named "Rails" that I created out of the
Eclipse default.
The main change is, that tabs are not used at all - I found that advice in
several places.
For the rest it is... well, the way I like it...  

To use it, I guess it must be imported in the same place from where I
created it: 
Project|Properties|Java Code Style|Formatter.

Somewhere I found a remark that in Eclipse 3.x it is possible to reformat
all sources in one fell swoop,
but I haven't yet discovered how to do that. I haven't reformatted anything
yet.

I also had a look at Codestyle, but from a superficial glance I concluded
that it does only reporting,
no automatic or on-demand formatting. I doubt if it will add much to what we
can already do with Eclipse
to find simple whitespace differences.
 
Erik.