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Bug 121956

Summary:	Can the java formatter be told to leave blank lines as they are
Product:	java	Reporter:	gwalbran <gwalbran>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Dusan Balek <dbalek>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description gwalbran 2007-11-15 02:29:59 UTC

The Options, Java Code, Formatting options allow you to specify how many blank lines should be before and after various
code elements. The problem is I don't always want to do the same thing. For instance if fields are related I don't put
in blank line between them, if they are not related I do put a blank line in.

I would like to tell the formatter to not change blank lines before or after fields. I tried setting the field before
and after options to blank and to -1 but both were treated as if 0 was specified.

Comment 1 gwalbran 2008-05-09 04:33:13 UTC

Netbeans 6.1 java formatter leaves blank lines unchanged