On Sep 14 2012, at 09:27 , Chris Hegarty wrote: > On 14/09/12 12:20, Alan Bateman wrote: >> On 14/09/2012 01:21, Brad Wetmore wrote: >>> Netbean's automatic formatting does a pretty good job with new code. >>> However, I think the general advice is to not change existing code >>> just because. When you're dealing with multiple release families, it >>> makes the merges much more difficult. >>> >>> Brad >> One think that Paul Sandoz suggested recently is that we should have a >> NB template that folks can use to avoid some discussions/debates on >> styles. It would be great for someone to run with that, the hard part is >> of course that it will be impossible to get agreement. Personally I find >> NB's defaults okay but there are several cases where its indenting is >> horrible. > > I did play with NB somewhat trying to get it follow, exactly, the preferred > style in some areas of the JDK code. I was able to get it close, or at least > better than the default, but I don't believe it is possible to get it to do > exactly what we want.
Please report issues with the NB formatter not following "Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language" on this issue: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124169
