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davidvarga / MBeautifier

MBeautifier is a MATLAB source code formatter, beautifier. It can be used directly in the MATLAB Editor and it is configurable.
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Align assignments at the "=" sign #104

Closed plkinon closed 3 years ago

plkinon commented 3 years ago

Dear contributors,

I am happily using MBeautifier! Just one thing strikes me: I want to align assignments at the "=" sign to make code more readible, e.g.

Variable1 = 1;
str       = 'Hello!';

Is this currently possible to do? If not, would it be easily implemented?

Bests Philipp

davidvarga commented 3 years ago

Hi!

It is nearly impossible to do with the current implementation, but if you formatted the lines once, MBeautify can be instructed to skip the formatting for a section using Directives: https://github.com/davidvarga/MBeautifier#directives

In you example:

% MBeautifierDirective:Format:Off
Variable1 = 1;
str       = 'Hello!';
% MBeautifierDirective:Format:On

will instruct MBeautifier to disable formatting for that section in the code.

I hope this help! :)

plkinon commented 2 years ago

Hi!

Yes I saw this in the Readme file but those extra comments are not what I want, too.

Nevertheless: Thank you!