[Feature] Vertical Alignment (Personally Implemented)

[Dreaming381]

Forgive me if I come off as awkward, I'm not normally involved in open source software projects.

This last week I was looking for a Visual Studio extension that would auto-format my code every time I saved. I have this functionality in my IDE at work using clang formatters in C++ and wanted similar functionality at home working on Unity projects. I came across CodeMaid and really liked its simplicity and flexibility. However, it was missing a feature I missed from work which was vertical alignment, so this weekend I decided to fork the project and add the functionality for myself. Right now it vertically aligns assignments and variable declarations, but I plan to fix any bugs I encounter and add method args and flow control expressions alignment among other things.

There are a few flaws with my implementation:

• It only works with C#
• It requires the Microsoft Roslyn syntax code analysis packages
• It uses a lot of manual text parsing tracking line and absolute offsets and synchronizing the EnvDTE EditPoint system with the syntax analysis TextSpan objects
• I developed against the stable branch rather than master since master wasn't building for me when I forked
• It only uses spaces for padding. I don't use tabs.

So my questions:

1. Is this a feature that people want in CodeMaid?
2. While I don't plan on spending much time continuing work on this or making it work for others use cases that don't overlap with mine, assuming people do want this feature, are there some small steps I can take to getting this fit for a pull request?

[codecadwallader]

Thanks for reaching out, it sounds like a cool feature. :) To your questions:

1. It may be, but I didn't find any active issues/feature requests tied to it in a quick search for "vertical".
2. If you're not planning to continue work on it, how about we leave this open issue with a link back to your fork to see if anybody is interested in picking it up and supporting it?

[Dreaming381]

Link to Fork

Here's an example of what this does for convenience: Before

        private GameplaySystemGroup m_gameplaySystemGroup;
        private InitializationSystemGroup m_initializationSystemGroup;
        private SimulationSystemGroup m_simulationSystemGroup;
        private PresentationSystemGroup m_presentationSystemGroup;

        public MyWorld(string name, List<Type> systems, bool editorWorld) : base(name)
        {
            var em = EntityManager;
            Singleton = em.CreateEntity();
            em.AddComponentData(Singleton, new SingletonTag());

            m_initializationSystemGroup = GetOrCreateManager<InitializationSystemGroup>();
            m_simulationSystemGroup = GetOrCreateManager<SimulationSystemGroup>();
            m_presentationSystemGroup = GetOrCreateManager<PresentationSystemGroup>();
            m_gameplaySystemGroup = GetOrCreateManager<GameplaySystemGroup>();

After

        private GameplaySystemGroup       m_gameplaySystemGroup;
        private InitializationSystemGroup m_initializationSystemGroup;
        private SimulationSystemGroup     m_simulationSystemGroup;
        private PresentationSystemGroup   m_presentationSystemGroup;

        public MyWorld(string name, List<Type> systems, bool editorWorld) : base(name)
        {
            var em    = EntityManager;
            Singleton = em.CreateEntity();
            em.AddComponentData(Singleton, new SingletonTag());

            m_initializationSystemGroup = GetOrCreateManager<InitializationSystemGroup>();
            m_simulationSystemGroup     = GetOrCreateManager<SimulationSystemGroup>();
            m_presentationSystemGroup   = GetOrCreateManager<PresentationSystemGroup>();
            m_gameplaySystemGroup       = GetOrCreateManager<GameplaySystemGroup>();

[StresseJesse]

I want it! I want it! (In case that's still in question)

[govindap11]

@StresseJesse I found the workaround to achieve this in a different thread:

Prevent Code Maid from removing blank/whitespace from variable assignments

[Dreaming381]

@govindap11 I think you misunderstand what this fork did. It wouldn't just disable squashing whitespace, it would actually insert whitespace where there was none before in order to create vertical alignment automatically.

I guess while I am here, I should mention I no longer use this fork. I wanted my formatter to also work as a standalone process and now use a different setup.

[govindap11]

@Dreaming381 Thank you for your reply. Actually, I recently noticed that difference myself.

I use the following extension for aligning the assignments: Align Assignments