Format Selection Possible?

Well, here is what I did.

I have made two steps. The first step analyzes per token. I use the token stream to get the previous and/or next token. Depending on that I insert or remove whitespaces.

The second step only trims whitespaces and uses the correct indentation.

My biggest problem is the performance. In my editor a lot of things happen during the DocumentChanged event, so I try to minimize the modifications.

My method lookes like this:

    public override void FormatTextRange(ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Document document, TextRange textRange)
    {
      document.UndoRedo.StartGroup(DocumentModificationType.AutoFormat);

      // 1 - analyze per token
      FormatTokens(document, textRange);

      // 2 - analyze per line (indentation)
      FormatLines(document, textRange);

      document.UndoRedo.EndGroup();
    }

 And inside the methods you do your logic and replace the text like that:

document.ReplaceText(DocumentModificationType.AutoFormat, currentToken.TextRange, newText, DocumentModificationOptions.RetainSelection);

Hi Cody,

Yes it is supported but you'd need to write the code in your language to do the actual formatting.  What Tobias suggested is the right direction of what you would want to do.

The "Language Definition Guide / Other Features / Code Formatting" topic talks about it a bit.  Basically you'd have your language return true from a FormattingSelected property.  Then you'd need to implement the FormatTextRange method.  It's probably easiest if you have the logic in that method build up a StringBuilder of the formatted result then do a document.ReplaceText at the end with the sum result.