Re: IDE's that support ADA

[Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Adam Beneschan wrote:

> If you mean "turn this mess off", I believe you can (at least in 
> Eclipse); there are places to configure things like this.  I think that 
> all their different rules for different syntactical structures can be 
> configured individually, which means there are a lot of them on the 
> menu, which means I haven't gone through them all, so I'm not totally 
> sure it can be disabled.  But I think it can.

Both Eclipse and IntelliJ also have extensively customizable formatting 
rules so you can generally get it to do what you want rather than what 
someone else wants. The formatting rules can be project specific so you 
can abide by project requirements and still use your preferred formatting 
for your own projects. Maybe this is what Adam is talking about.

The rules are used when you try to format an entire file (which I almost 
never do because it munges the places where I make exceptions to the 
formatting rules) and also when it completes structures that you type.

Overall I find the behavior more useful than annoying once

a) It's configured the way I like, and
b) I got used to it.

Peter