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Sometimes self-documenting coding conventions requires that adjacent variable declarations and class data members declarations utilize extra whitespace before the variable type, the variable name, and/or any inital value assigned to it so that they are all aligned vertically, similar to as if their position was determined by a tab stop (but instead the width of each such "column" is actually determined by the actual text on the run of other such lines above and below it rather than at fixed a fixed 'x' position ). When access modifiers or variable identifiers can be of potentially very different lengths, the result can be code that looks far less cluttered. It would be a most convenient feature for the code reformatter to be able to optionally align class data members and local variable names on adjacent declarations vertically in this manner.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221729 ***