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Millianz
Junior Member
10 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 9:11:06 PM
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Hello,
This has been bugging me for a while and I'm not really sure whether this is Visual Studio or Visual Assist X behavior.
Basically every time you attempt to align #define or any other c++ directives using indentation with tabs or spaces, something moves the directive back to the beginning of the line.
I like to have defines the following way
#ifdef _MSC_VER
# define Break() __debugbreak()
#else
# define Break() do { __asm int 3 } while(0)
#endif
which is hard since VAX isn't keeping track of my current indentation. |
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Millianz
Junior Member
10 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 9:13:29 PM
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Another unrelated feature that would be nice (and maybe could be accomplished using VA snippets) would be to automatically comment the closing curly braces of namespaces with the namespace name, i.e:
namespace Foo
{
} // namespace Foo
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accord
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
3287 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 10:56:50 PM
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First question,
I don't really understand your question. If I select the lines and press tab, they will move and stays there. If I copy-paste them somewhere else, Visual Assist asks Visual Studio to format the selection which makes them move to the begging of the line. This can be turned off:
VA Options -> Advanced -> Correction -> Format after paste
Second question,
Yes, a snippet can be used. Just create the following snippet with shortcut "namespace", "ns" or whatever you like and paste the following line to last editbox of the snippet editor:
namespace $givenname$
{
} // $givenname$
This way, when you type your shortcut (i.e. ns) and then press enter, you will be prompted to type the name, e.g. Foo, so you will get what you wanted. Hope this helps :) |
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Millianz
Junior Member
10 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2011 : 5:24:41 PM
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Hi,
Thanks for the answer, the namespace snippet works nicely.
Regarding the directive alignment, let me rephrase that a little bit.
The problem I'm having with directives is that they are auto formatted to always be at the beginning of the line.
Consider the following:
If I type something like
#if _DEBUG
and then hit enter and then tab (to indent):
#if _DEBUG
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and then type the pound symbol to write a second directive
#if _DEBUG
#....
something moves the entire line to the very beginning. I'm not sure if it's visual studio or visual assist x, but it becomes annoying quickly in larger files, for example if an entire code section is guarded from being included in release (debug methods, additional checks, asserts,....). An example of this would be
namespace Foo
{
namespace Bar
{
Release code
.
.
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#if _DEBUG
void DumpBlocksInUse(void)
{
#if MEMORY_STATISTICS // Every time I type a new directive it is moved to the beginning of the line (try it)
...
#else
...
#endif
}
#endif
}
}
I definitely don't think this issue deserves high priority in any way, BUT it is really annoying if you are working with a lot of pre processor directives.
--Mill |
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accord
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
3287 Posts |
Posted - Jun 20 2011 : 7:17:26 PM
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*ah* Now I see what you mean 
This is definitely a Visual Studio behavior, it happens even when I disable VA via the extension manager:
Tools -> Extension Manager...
I took a quick glance at the text editor options in Visual Studio's option dialog but no luck. It doesn't mean you cannot turn it off somehow, though. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jun 21 2011 : 10:03:04 AM
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You might want to look into a tool specifically designed to do code formatting / indenting. One commercial program is: http://www.profactor.co.uk/stylemanager.php
Personally I have never used this tool, but it sounds promising from the website description. |
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Millianz
Junior Member
10 Posts |
Posted - Jun 22 2011 : 5:59:27 PM
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I figured that it would be something visual studio does, too bad :(
That tool actually looks pretty cool, I'll give it a test run as soon as I have time for playing around with it :P
Thanks for the help guys. |
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C++ Directive alignment
