Wish Auto spacing in code lines

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SPLatMan

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• Jul 23, 2014

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A feature of Visual Basic's editor I find useful is that it "normalises" the spacing on code lines. For example, if I type

B4X:

x=89

the editor automatically inserts spaces to make it

B4X:

x = 89

. This not only makes the program a little neater, but makes it easier to find all cases of assigning a value to x.

 

klaus

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• Jul 23, 2014

• #2

I would like that too !

 

MaFu

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• Jul 23, 2014

• #3

+1

 

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• Jul 30, 2014

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I would take it a bit further. A lot of development tools will 'pretty' format for you. So if I put in

B4X:

If x>2 Then
    They will indent the next series of lines until
    I type
End If

Then the indent will move back. This makes it far easier to see if your program flow is what you think it is going to be, as well as just plain makes code easier to read.

 

ivan.tellez

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• Aug 6, 2014

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I really love this on vb6 it has LOTS of advantages

for example a simple serach of "x=89" it will not find "x= 89" nor "x =89" not even "x = 89"

Best practices to code is to allways have "normalized" code, but currently its time consuming and sometimes you forgot to do it in some lines of code.

+1

 

MikeH

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• Aug 6, 2014

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Yes, I do this manually but it would help if it was automatic.

Maybe even having styles whereby you can set your own spacing, rules etc?

I wonder if there is a recommended layout for code or do we just do our own thing?

 

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Tom Law

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• Aug 7, 2014

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Have you tried out the B4a Code Formatter? (search for it on this site).