Ah! RBConfigurableFormatter class>>settingsOn: is missing one setting ---- (aBuilder setting: #retainBlankLinesBetweenStatements) label: 'Retain blank lines between statements'. ----
As for the comments, I looked at RBConfigurableFormatter>>formatStatementCommentsFor: one idea might be to look at the space between end of the statement and beginning of the comment and if there is newline present then preserve it. something like -------------------------- formatStatementCommentsFor: aStatementNode originalSource isNil ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. FormatCommentWithStatements ifFalse: [ ^ self ]. aStatementNode statementComments do: [ :each | (self newLinesBeforeStartingAt: each first) > 0 ifTrue: [ self newLine ] ifFalse: [ codeStream tab ]. codeStream nextPutAll: (originalSource copyFrom: each first to: each last) ] --------------------------- There should be also an accompanying setting #retainBlankLineBeforeComments. Peter On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:45 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi peter > > > Is it possible to configure formatter to preserve empty lines and line > comments? > > > I do not know :) > > > > e.g. > -------------- > myMethod > someCode. > < empty line that I would like to preserve > > moreCode. > --------------- > > But I think that should be customizable. > > > > the formatter also automatically puts comments on the end of the > previous statement. > e.g. > ------ > someCode. > "a comment" > moreCode. > > > If I recall, the problem is that comments are not a node but an attribute > of a node. > We should try to fix that. It is not clear where you always want to put > them. > > > ---- > ends up as > ---- > someCode. "a comment" > moreCode. > ----- > > Both those behaviors seems odd to me. > > I've seen empty newlines and line comments in Pharo code... so either I > missed some setting or people just don't use the formatter? > > I use the formatter and I would like to use it much more systemaitcally. > > > Thanks, > Peter > > >
