Re: Code Formatters

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
[snip]
> but these are seldome more than very simple issues. I personally don't
> like any editor that messes with me in any way (I hate templates or =
any
> kind of on the fly fixup of what I type), but others really like =
editors
> that help out (e.g. Ada mode in EMACS).

One of my biggest gripes about VisualBasic programming is that damn! =
editor which moves my code around, refuses to allow me to use additional =
spaces to line up code.=20
It does however enforce capitalization, a thorny issue in this group :)

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