add editor folds or similar to keep hand crafted formatting intact
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Description
### Description
For readability, you sometimes format code in a nicely aligned way, e.g. columnar for operations on a sequence of array elements.
For instance
```
return new Student(
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 0 ] ),
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 1 ] ),
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 2 ] ),
java.time.LocalDate.class.cast( components[ 3 ] )
);
```
This is hard work, even in this wiki editor I am currently using, for lack of a fixed sized font.
Anyhow, if you could keep that formatting intact even with a reformat all over the code, that would be nice.
The start and end tags could look like this: The first to turn reformatting off.
- `//!reformat-`
- `//!reformat+`
complete example
```
//!reformat-
return new Student(
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 0 ] ),
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 1 ] ),
java.lang.String.class.cast( components[ 2 ] ),
java.time.LocalDate.class.cast( components[ 3 ] )
);
//!reformat+
```
### Use case/motivation
The readability of code is key.
### Related issues
reformatting in general
### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Start by locating the NetBeans Java editor's reformat entry point and formatter implementation, then determine where marker lines could preserve a selected block; done means reformatting leaves the marked example unchanged, with coverage for the start and end markers.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100