Auto Format with curly bracket bug

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1

Hi,

I noticed this behaviour in older releases and in IDE 1.0 as well. If you copy and paste this code to IDE,

int myVar[ 1 ][ 1 ] =
{
  { 0 }
};

and pres Ctrl + T (Tools - Auto Format) couple of times, you will get this:

int myVar[ 1 ][ 1 ] =
{
  { 
    0           }
};

Each time you use Auto Format

  • closing curly bracket in var1 moves to right,
  • new line adds to end of file.

Can someone confirm this behaviour, please? Any workaround so far? (Auto Format for one-dimensional array works fine)

Thanks

qwertysimo

2

"feature" confirmed
workaround: type it directly in a good layout so you don't need the autoformatter (be the autoformatter yourself :wink:

You can write a new autoformatter sketch, upload it to the arduino and then throw in its own source ....

3

You know, it is no problem to keep nice layout manually but sometimes, e.g. after some copy & paste operations when you move a nested code block one level higher, it is much quicker and less prone to errors to use autoformat than edit many lines by hand...

Thanks.

4

You are absolutely right,

I use Notepad++ often and it also has an autoformat (C++ re-indent)

int myVar[ 1 ][ 1 ] =
{
	{ 0 }
};

int myVar[ 1 ][ 1 ] =
{
	{ 
		0           }
};

It expanded the tab on the original, but did not improve the faulty one :frowning:

You might wanna try - Artistic Style - it has zillion++ options :slight_smile: