Hi Joel,
Our code formatting feature is very basic and straightforward. Indeed, we never planned to keep it in the GUI, but some people convinced us not to remove it.
I’ve just improved the detection of strings and comments in the latest snapshot a little [1]; maybe that helps.
Thanks for all, Christian
[1] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM Andy Bunce bunce.andy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Joel,
Welcome. I never use the GUI format option because it is very aggressive with parenthesis regardless of the context. E.g. let $num := abs($d) becomes: let $num := abs( $d ) But obviously it should not be messing with strings. I am not aware of any workarounds.
/Andy
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 03:05, Joel Kalvesmaki director@textalign.net wrote:
Hi everyone, I just joined. BaseX is awesome (as y'all know).
I like CTRL+SHIFT+F for formatting, but it is also messing up string values, which especially wreaks havoc with regular expressions. That is...
let $regex := "(a|z)"...becomes...
let $regex := "( a|z )"I didn't see anything in the documentation or archives about micromanaging the formatting. Is the best practice to avoid formatting altogether? Or is there a hidden pragma to exempt lines from being formatted?
Joel
Joel Kalvesmaki Director, Text Alignment Network http://textalign.net