[vgriffin]

I really like the feature that lets me break a text string across lines by hitting return inside the string. I like the fact that the + char is left at the end of the first line like:

str = “This was a single line ” +
“of text before I broke it”;

But when I use the source formatting feature, it moves all operators to the start of the next line! I HATE that behavior and can’t figure out how to change it.

It leaves the above example looking like:

str = “This was a single line ”
+ “of text before I broke it”;

I considered putting this request under new features, but consider it a bug that the IDE reformats its own nicely-formatted changes. Because I know some people prefer the operator to start the next line, that positioning should be an option and should also be used when text is split. Sometimes I choose where to split a long expression and I want to keep the breaks. I would like the formatter to recombine lines in an expression only as an option.

I’m using 5.5M1 but have noticed that behavior in previous releases.

[Riyad Kalla]

You were right the first time, it’s a feature request to the Java source formatter (requesting that instead of it’s current behavior, we add a new type of behavior, not change the existing one).

[vgriffin]

The inconsistent behavior of the IDE’s built-in formatting, which cannot be changed, makes it a bug.

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