Eclipse has a powerful code formatter for Java, but I am wondering whether it is possible to define a code format on a per file basis, instead of defining the format for all java files?
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Can you explain how this might be useful?– KaranMar 31, 2013 at 17:08
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Well, for example you could use some code from vendor, which uses a different coding style. But sometimes you may need to modify it a little bit. @Karan– xuhdevApr 24, 2013 at 18:56
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Well Eclipse is going to format as Java based on the file extension, so one possible way might be to rename the ones you want a different/custom format for to some other extension, then define your desired formatting rules for files with that new extension. Of course, changing extensions quite likely will cause issues, so I don't know how else one might do this without undesirable side-effects. Perhaps if there's a way to make Eclipse select different formatting rules based on some unique string inside the Java files. Maybe there's a plugin that does this...– KaranApr 24, 2013 at 20:22
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Don't know how to specify a formatter per-file, but there is at least a way to selectively turn formatter off so it doesn't mess up existing formatting, see here:
In short, you can configure Eclipse to look for comments like @formatter:on and @formatter:off, details here.
