Turn off this automatic code order
lazarus / 9-Editor

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clauslack · 2009-09-11 00:12

I use a standard code, but Lazarus change all in automatic form.
How turn off this change automatic of code?
Examples
from this code
Code: [Select]begin
    if GestadoCajaBonos = '*' then  begin
        ShowMessage('Seleccione otro nro de caja, esta ya esta
cerrada');
        exit;
    end;
end;
to this code
Code: [Select]begin
  if GestadoCajaBonos = '*' then
  begin
    ShowMessage('Seleccione otro nro de caja, esta ya esta cerrada');
    exit;
  end;
end;
Cut lines
Code: [Select]  Usuario := BuscaDatosEnTabla('usuarios',
'codigo_usuario', IntToStr(
    GnroDeUsuario), 'nombre', syscamidatos.IBConnection1);


Ident from 4 spaces to 2 spaces.

Thanks

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Martin_fr · 2009-09-11 00:40

I can only guess from your description. Do you mean:

You wrote your code in a different editor, and it had an indent of 2,
but if you load the same file with lazarus, the indent is 4 (or double
the old indent)?

Does your text contain tab chars? Note that  in lazarus the cursor
left/right keys go through a tab, as if they where spaces. (Yet
Lazarus does keep the tab / See end of my message)

You can go into the Editor options (Enviroment Menu => Options), on
the Editor/General page is a field to set the width of a tab, it
probably is 4, and you may want to set this to 2.

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You may want to read more about tab settings (and maybe trim trailing
spaces and auto-indent) here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_W
indow:_Editor_Options#Tabs_to_spaces

Because if you whist to use the tab key in lazarus without "magic"
behaviour, so that it does just insert a normal tab, then you may have
to change more settings.

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If you whist the cursor to skip tabs (pressing cursor right while the
caret is in front of a tab, should bring you to the end of the tab,
not into the middle of a tab) then you need Lazarus 0.9.29, where such
an option does exist.

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Martin_fr · 2009-09-11 00:47

The max line length (before the line is split into 2) is in the
options under CodeTools/Line-Splitting.

Afaik that only applies to code that is auto-generated. Not sure if it
will affect code you type by hand.

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clauslack · 2009-09-11 12:01

Thanks Martin_fr

I work with a project with Lazarus in two machines, one with Lazarus
0.9.27 svn 21317, other with Lazarus 0.9.29 svn from 25/08/2009.

I think that the 0.9.29 version format all code (in especial "if then
else" without any warning, insert spaces after colon, etc)

These options appear to be in
Enviroment->Options->Codetools->Space
Enviroment->Options->Codetools->Line Splitting
Enviroment->Options->Codetools->   etc, etc

Is not a big problem, but I don't like this automatic change in the
coding style.

I suspect that 0.9.29 has changed the coding style, but I can't
reproduce it now.
QuoteAfaik that only applies to code that is auto-generated. Not sure
if it will affect code you type by hand.
All the code is type by hand. Very strange.
Now I am with Lazarus 0.9.27 and all the code is like I wrote.
I will check this code with Lazarus 0.9.29 later.
Thanks again.

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Martin_fr · 2009-09-11 12:11

Well a feature like this is planed. But at current it will only be
active (to whatever extend it exists...) if you compile the IDE with
-dEnableIndenter

If you are on SVN, maybe you had a version where the check for the
define was missing, and it was always on.

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clauslack · 2009-09-11 14:33

Thanks, I will check that.