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Lars Vogel / August 3rd, 2010
Eclipse has the option to put the semicolon at the right place in your coding.
For some very annoying reason my workspace had this feature disabled. In case you have the same activate it via the following:
Eclipse has the option to put the semicolon at the right place in your coding.
For some very annoying reason my workspace had this feature disabled. In case you have the same activate it via the following:
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August 3rd, 2010 at 9:43 am
Interesting… I always thought that nobody at all was using ‘Smart Semicolon’…
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:19 am
What’s the effect of this feature?
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
@andrew Eclipse will put the semicolon at the right place in your coding, e.g. end of line.
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for the reminder. I had it set for Java but was having the same problem with JavaScript and couldn’t remember how to set it. I use this feature all the time and really like it.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:21 am
@Andrew: It puts the semicolon at the end of the line, no matter at what position the cursor in that line is, while you type the ;
.composite.dispose()
..composite.d>;<ispose()
…composite.dispose() ;
September 15th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
This is one of my favorite settings and one of the first things I activate in a fresh workspace (actually I’m using Google’s Eclipse Workspace Mechanic to automate this). I can’t imagine living without this feature!