[oXygen-user] wish: reindenting without rewrapping

[Lars Huttar]

Thanks!
Very helpful.
This is one of the biggest reasons I would rather use oXygen than XMLSpy 
-- responsiveness to users.
Lars

George Cristian Bina wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>
> There are two indent commands in oXygen. The second one is exactly as 
> you describe, it only indents the space at the beginning of each line 
> without affecting the line breaks. It is called Indent selection and 
> it is available on the contextual menu (right click on windows). You 
> can assign a shortcut for this action using the Options->Preferences 
> dialog in the Menu shortcut keys entry -> Indent selection action.
>
> For separating a template from the other I use comments. They allow 
> the new lines to stay there even after a format and indent operation 
> and also allow me to enter a small description of the template.
>
> Best Regards,
> George
>
>
> Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> Dear Oxygen folks,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for feature wishes, 
>> but here's one.
>> I love the pretty-printing ("Format and indent") feature as a way to 
>> fix indentation.
>> However, I also like to include blank lines in my stylesheets to make
>> them more readable, e.g. to separate one template from the next. But
>> when I use Format-and-indent, the blank lines are eliminated.
>> I also sometimes like to have comments following an XSLT instruction 
>> on the same line.
>>
>> So it would be nice to have a way to reindent without affecting line 
>> breaks. E.g. just a "reindent" command. (Ctrl+Alt+P? Ctrl+Shift+I?)
>>
>> It would be possible to offer this functionality as a Preferences 
>> option for the Format-and-indent command, but that would not be ideal 
>> since there are often times that you DO want to rewrap long lines and 
>> so on. Switching a preferences option on and off would be annoying. 
>> The ideal would be to have a separate command.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lars
>>
>>
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