Suggestion: Format Feature

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Suggestion

Have you ever wanted to format your code to perfection... Well if this suggestion ever gets approved you might just have the neatest line of code out there. I believe it should be added because why not, i think it should also go under the preferences tab.

Just think about not having the hassle of going back and fixing every line of code that has an error or a formatting mistake.

If you have no idea on what im talking about i just believe that we need a formatting feature in the playcanvas code editor.

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There’s an auto indent feature which is pretty close https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/scripting/code-editor/#hot-keys

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But would you consider adding a actual formatting feature that formats wrapped lines? Or is there some type of downside to doing this?

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Not entirely sure on what you mean here? What do you mean by wrapped lines?

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this: function randomFunction(){console.log("Hello"); alert("hello again");)}

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I second that. I think a format on save option is missing in the editor.

It’s tedious to manually formatting code.

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Currently, we are still using CodeMirror so are a little limited by that. We have had some thoughts about moving to Monaco but it isn’t on our short term roadmap yet.

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Interesting didn’t know about Monaco.

I just did a quick google search and found this repo:

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Five years old though :thinking:

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With the recent editor move to monaco. Is this feature on the roadmap for the new editor?

EDIT: Shift + ALT + F will format the current document. So it should be relatively easy to implement format on save right?

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Yep, that can be an option now. Can you make a feature request on the Editor repo please: https://github.com/playcanvas/editor

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