Text Formatter

Syntax languages support text formatters, which provide functionality for formatting the layout of whitespace and symbols such as braces to make code more readable.

Basic Concepts

Text formatters are classes implementing ITextFormatter that can format a specified range of text. Formatting involves adjusting the layout of whitespace and symbols such as braces to make code more readable.

See the Text Formatting topic for details on how to create and work with text formatter classes.

Registering with a Language

Any object that implements ITextFormatter can be associated with a syntax language by registering it as an ITextFormatter service on the language.

This code creates an XML text formatter and registers it with the syntax language that is already declared in the language variable:

XmlFormatter textFormatter = new XmlFormatter();
language.RegisterTextFormatter(textFormatter);