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Source Format Issue

jdloranger — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:29:40 GMT

Good morning.

I started encountering odd behavior from the source formatting feature in Eclipse. It is my habit to use Shift + F1 to format my ABAP code and it has been working flawlessly.

However, just yesterday, I began getting some odd results. Not every row, but on selected rows, the pattern of which I cannot determine, the formatter forces the code to lose its indentation, when it shoudl be indented. Again, this does not happen for every row, just a few. When I manually indent the row and use the formatter, it forces the same row back to the far left margin. Repeating the formatting does not correct the issue.

I've searched and cannot find where anyone else has encountered the same behavior, nor have I downloaded any updates to Eclipse or anything else in weeks.

Has anyone else seen this or know how to correct it?

Thank you,

Justin

Re: Source Format Issue

jdloranger — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:37:45 GMT

Ok, found the problem. And yes, it was me...

Yesterday I needed to make some modifications to an ancient program and had to set the ABAP editor to check for lines greater than 72 characters long, to prevent a short dump. I finished what I needed to do and forgot I had changed the setting. From SE80 : Utilities->Settings : ABAP Editor Tab, uncheck "Downwards-Compatible Line Length (72).

Now Eclipse now formats like it always had.

Re: Source Format Issue

markus_nold — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:07:20 GMT

I had a similar issue. For me the reason was another missing setting in ABAP Work bench; I didn’t check the ‘Indent’.

Re: Source Format Issue

jdloranger — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:16:56 GMT

Good to know. Thank you for sharing.

Justin