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Quick question about Eclipse plugin.
Sat, 2011-04-02, 23:34
I'm giving the new Eclipse plugin (2.0.0 beta) a spin. I'm fairly new to
Eclipse so forgive me if this question is excessively basic. I have used
Eclipse some for C/C++ programming in the past, and in that universe I use
an indentation depth of 4. However, I'd like to use an indentation depth of
2 for Scala files since that seems to be the community standard. I'm looking
for a way of setting Scala's indentation separately from the overall
default. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do that.
I see that the Scala formatter has an indentation depth setting of 2 (the
default for the formatter). In fact when I do Ctrl+Shift+F the code is
reformatted to an indentation of 2 as desired. Is there some way to set it
to 2 for normal editing?
Peter
Sun, 2011-04-03, 19:37
#2
Re: Re: Quick question about Eclipse plugin.
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Matt Russell wrote:
> The Scala plug-in shares indentation settings with the Java tooling for
> everything but the code formatter. So you can go to:
>
> * Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter
> * Create a new code style profile, and edit it to use spaces and
> indentation size of 2
>
> You can do this at an individual project level too, which is handy if you
> don't want to mess up your workspace Java style.
>
> (And hopefully this will be fixed soon so that there's single Scala
> indentation preference distinct from Java).
Thanks. That clarified things for me. It's nice that one can change this at
the level of a project. I hadn't realized that but I can see how that would
be handy. I agree that having separate Scala settings would be desirable.
Especially in mixed Scala/Java projects it's easy to see how the style used
in the Java files might be different than that used in the Scala files.
Peter
On Apr 2, 11:33 pm, "Peter C. Chapin" wrote:
> I see that the Scala formatter has an indentation depth setting of 2 (the
> default for the formatter). In fact when I do Ctrl+Shift+F the code is
> reformatted to an indentation of 2 as desired. Is there some way to set it
> to 2 for normal editing?
The Scala plug-in shares indentation settings with the Java tooling
for everything but the code formatter. So you can go to:
* Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter
* Create a new code style profile, and edit it to use spaces and
indentation size of 2
You can do this at an individual project level too, which is handy if
you don't want to mess up your workspace Java style.
(And hopefully this will be fixed soon so that there's single Scala
indentation preference distinct from Java).