AdT (ABAP in Eclipse), Code Formatter/PrettyPrinter / Beautify - more options?

[joachimrees1]

I have exactly the question someone had back in 2014:

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/message/15254359

I would wish for e.g. such simple things as aligning adjacent statements by the '='-character, like so:

var1 = 'xyz'.
var_very_long = 123.

“format source (shift+F1) -->:
var1          = 'xyz'.
var_very_long = 123.

It's end of 2017 now, is the answer any different?

(As far as I can tell, no: 😞

- but maybe there's something in the dev-pipeline?)

best

Joachim

[Former Member]

Hello Joachim,

looking for the exact same issue, i found your post. Just wanna inform anybody who is also searching for the formatter-option in adt: In the meanwhile it works well (Shift + F1).

Cheers

[joachimrees1]

Hi Erik, thanks for your Feedback! But I am not sure if I understand your "it works well" ?!

My wish was, that this

var1 = 'xyz'.
var_very_long = 123.

would be turned into into that (-> nicely aligning at the '=' )

var1          = 'xyz'.
var_very_long = 123.

I tried it again today: it didn't do it and I still didn't find an option for achieving that.
Best
Joachim

[Former Member]

Hello Joachim,

well, i tried it at home with the latest ADT Version. And yes it aligns as nicely as the pretty Printer in sap. Have a look at the top bar. There should smth. like "edit". there you can expand a new menu with one entry called "Format" (again, smth. like that). And if i hit that, it Formats my abap Code well.

Best regards

[larshp]

we have an evil plan to be able to run the abaplint pretty printer from ADT, https://github.com/abaplint/abaplint/issues/629

[ThFiedler]

Hi Joachim,

there are currently no plans to further improve the pretty printer/Formatter.

Regards,

Thomas.

[Ulrika_E82]

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