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| Configuring Default Formatters for EGL programs | |
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| Conscientious developers apply various conventions to produce readable code. EGL | |
| encourages programmers to prioritise the readability of EGL templates over the | |
| readability of the text that is generated, and provides several built-in | |
| formatters for improving the readability of generated text. For example, the | |
| built-in Java formatter corrects the layout and indentation of | |
| generated text that resembles a Java program. | |
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| Default formatters are applied to every template invocation in an EGL program. Specify | |
| one (or more) default formatters on this tab if you wish to format the text generated | |
| by every template in your EGL program. If you wish to have configure formatters in a | |
| template-specific manner, do not set default formatters on this tab, and instead configure | |
| formatters programmatically. For example: | |
| <pre><code>template.setFormatter(new Native('org.eclipse.epsilon.egl.formatter.language.JavaFormatter'))</code></pre> | |
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| To add a default formatter, select the Add.. button under the "Default Formatters" group of the | |
| "Generated Text" tab. | |
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| Formatters can be composed. When more than one formatter is added to the table on the | |
| "Generated Text" tab, formatters are executed in sequence (from top to bottom) for each | |
| template invocation in the EGL program. | |
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| You can define custom formatters by providing a plug-in that contributes to the | |
| following extension point. | |
| <pre><code>org.eclipse.epsilon.egl.dt.formatter</code></pre> | |
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