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Re: meditor

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Feb 06, 2005
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George Walters wrote:

>To whom ever maintains medit. The re-indent function has a bad bug with long
>lines.
>It breaks the statement lines characters beyond char 95 into little chunks on
>the next several lines.

<slight digression; a related buglette>
When you select the Reformat option there is a prompt "Break lines at
column" which defaults to 94. Unfortunately, in format.ew there is a
constant colbreak=94 and getNumber(Break) is wrongly stored in a
variable called linebreak, which is actually a boolean, and is
initialised to 0 about 16 instructions after that store.

Obviously, "colbreak" should be a variable, set to getNumber(Break).
If that was fixed, you could use it to work round this, but besides
being a bit late, I don't think that is the point at all.
</digression>

Otherwise, the behaviour you describe is somewhat intentional....

Suppose you have:

	mySequence =
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,{8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0}}

(where the assignment is all on one line), it will output the {8, and
then 12 following digits, one per line, all "nicely" lined up under
the 8. It is the column alignment which is doing it.

If, however, you undo this change (you can always reverse the effects
of a Reformat by pressing Ctrl Z twice), and break the above line just
before the {8, then a Reformat will happily leave it alone.

In either case, the reformatted program will still run fine.

You might want to have a look at format.ew (while fixing the bug I
mentioned at the start) and suggest something, but I really don't
think there is anything possible, shy of a complete rewrite, and maybe
not even then.

Pete