When removing a line in IntelliJ if it's in brackets and if it's just white spaces the whole line would get removed, So I wanted to know if there is any way to make that happen in VSCode and if there is how do I do it?
There is an extension called Hungry delete, it did exactly what I wanted.
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Using IntelliJ, if you type or copy code and the indentation or formatting is not correct, you can easily press Shift Command L and it fixes indentation and formatting. This works on all languages I've tried (python, javascript, html/css, etc)
Is there a way to do the same using VSCode but can't find any way to do it.
IntelliJ Before
Improper space on parenthesis, unnecessary space between colon and parenthesis, too little space between lines, and incorrect indentation on the if True line.
IntelliJ After
It used PEP8 code standards and fixed all the issues mentioned.
Is there a way to do this on VSCode?
When I use Python or any language in that indentation matters I hit enter after the : then it put the cursor in the right place.
This is a really annoying random issue. What cause this? Is there a way I can prevent it?
I see that Bitbucket has an ignore whitespace option but it seems like that just encourages a sloppy whitespace free-for-all on a team.
there are actually spaces being saved there which is evident from the different green shade.
I haven't used Processing in many years. I am copying some old code into Processing and it is pasting onto one line. Is there a beautify extension for Processing 3? Have looked and can't find.
What you're talking about is called auto-formatting, not beautifying.
The Processing editor includes an auto-formatter. Just go to Edit > Auto-Format, or press ctrl+t to do it from the keyboard.
Alternatively, most code IDEs like eclipse also include auto-formatters.
However, if everything is on one line, it sounds like you're dealing with an issue copying the newline character. This can happen if you copy something from one OS to another, for example. You might be able to google for a tool that fixes this problem, but it might be simpler to just put in the line breaks manually and then use the auto-formatter to handle the indentation for you.
Auto-indenting in IntelliJ IDEA seems to automatically takes lines previous to the selection in to consideration. This means that if the indentation is incorrect in the part of the file you're working on (e.g., 3 or 5 spaces where there should be 4, or even worse, a mix of tabs and spaces) it's annoyingly difficult to add correctly indented code.
Both new lines I'm adding and lines I use auto-indent on because I've changed them anyway get messed up like this. Since the file I'm working on is being worked on by someone else as well on another branch, I really don't want to modify over a third of the file just to indent everything correctly, but I would still like the lines that I'm actually modifying/adding to be correct - I don't see any reason to perpetuate the error when it's not necessary.
Currently the best mechanism for fixing it I've found is to manually do the spaces on a line and go from there, but it's really quite annoying, especially since I can't use the tab key or IntelliJ will immediately move to the incorrect indentation. It's barely better than copy/pasting the text to Sublime Text, fix the indentation there and paste it back without formatting.
My apologies if this has already been asked, I've tried to search for it, but it's very hard to search for this as there's so many auto-indent questions.
IntelliJ IDEA recently added a feature (in v14 or 1v4.1 if I recall) where it will detect indentation that is different from your settings. It will honor those indentations (in order to keep the file consistent). Usually as soon as you start editing the file, you get a banner, although that can be turned off. The banner looks like this:
This allows you to modify this setting on a per file basis, or turn it off completely (i.e. the "Show Settings" option).
I suspect this feature is what is causing you the issue. I am not sure how it handles a case where a file has mixed indentation (e.g. most of the file is 4, but some sections are 3 or 5 spaces). You can try turning this feature off in Settings > Editor > Code Style > "Detect and use existing file indents for editing"
I'm looking for something like CSS for code. Does it exist either in an IDE, or as a plugin?
The compiler often doesn't care how many more spaces or tabs or newlines you have between tokens in your code, but people do care.
I want to specify in my "style sheet" that braces always live on a seperate line, commas are always followed by spaces, and spaces always surround operators.
Somebody else could then take my code and in their style sheet, specify that no unnecessary spaces should be visible, braces should always be on the same line as their predecessor, and functions should always be separated by 3 line breaks. But the code itself should not actually change.
Is there such a tool?
I don't think such a thing exists, the best solution is to have a custom style for local coding (most IDE's allow this) and then use a tool to reformat your source code (like Jalopy for Java) when you commit it centrally.
That way you have something that's common centrally, but can still style how you want locally.
I don't know of any tool that can arbitrarily apply a style to code without actually modifying the text itself. Since you need to edit the code, that seems impractical.
This is called code formatting and if you google "code formatter" and your language of choice you should get a list of available options.
Try some eclipse based IDE (Aptana) or eclipse itsefl and and from there you can configure how the formatting works :)