[James]

Hi, I just started trying out CodeMix, and love the idea of using my favorite Java IDE with my favorite front-end development tool. Great move!

I just had a question about the setting “editor.autoIndent”. I’ve edited the file: ${user.home}/.codemix/settings.json, so it now looks like this:
{
“workbench.startupEditor”: “nothing”,
“window.restoreWindows”: “none”,
“editor.autoIndent”: true
}

…however, even after restarting Eclipse I can’t seem to get the code to auto indent whenever I copy and paste javascript, html, or xml code. Is there something I’m doing wrong, or is this setting just not supported yet?

I realize this is a technical preview, so things are still being rolled out. I just wanted to post a question in case there’s something I’m doing wrong.

Thanks!

[Brian Fernandes]

James,

Hi, I just started trying out CodeMix, and love the idea of using my favorite Java IDE with my favorite front-end development tool. Great move!

Thank you!

You could also try setting the editor.detectIndentation property to false and see if that makes a difference when you paste – with the few tests I’ve carried out though, there does seem to be something awry here. I’ll get this investigated further tomorrow to see if any workaround are possible before a fix.

Thank you for asking.

[James]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I did as you suggested, and set editor.detectIndentation to false, and that didn’t seem to make any difference:

{
    "workbench.startupEditor": "nothing",
    "window.restoreWindows": "none",
    "editor.autoIndent": true,
    "editor.detectIndentation": false
}

I’ll keep playing around and see if there’s anything else I can figure out.

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by James.

[James]

Just FYI, here’s my experiment…

I start with the following javascript code:

if (true) {
    if (true) {
        console.log("Hello World");
    }
}

Then I copy the line with “console.log”, and paste it above, and get these results:

if (true) {
        console.log("Hello World");
    if (true) {
        console.log("Hello World");
    }
}

[Brian Fernandes]

James,

Thanks for the examples, I ran a few additional tests here and no settings seem to help getting it to work, unfortunately. We’ve raised a bug for this, you should be seeing a link to it appear here in a bit.

I’m afraid the only workaround (other than manually correcting the indenting) would be to format the inserted code.

On other fronts, would love to hear more about your CodeMix experience -what sort of front end framework are you using, or is it just straight-up JavaScript?

[James]

I do all my front-end development in both AngularJS and Angular. In both cases I use TypeScript. I try to make model my AngularJS code to be as much as Angular as possible, to make migration easier.

[Brian Fernandes]

James,

Thanks for the note. We’re building additional tooling into CodeMix that should significantly improve the build experience. How do you currently manage your builds – do you just use a terminal directly inside the IDE? Any particular capabilities you’d like to see in CodeMix?

[James]

I’m probably old fashioned, but I prefer to run my builds from the command line. I mainly use the IDE for debugging and intelligent editing, such as:
* Code completion / (IntelliSense?)
* Adding imports automatically
* Smart indenting on copy/paste
* Showing compile errors in the Problems view
* Refactoring
* Jumping to class definitions on Ctrl+click

CodeMix seems to give me all these features for things Eclipse doesn’t do well (TypeScript, HTML, Sass, XML, etc.). I think the integration of VS Code into Eclipse is a brilliant move, and well worth the price for a yearly subscription!

[Brian Fernandes]

James,

Thank you for detailing how you use CodeMix, and thank you for the kind words! I’ll send these notes on to the team – much appreciated.

Have a great weekend.

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