Manual formatting is an alternative of course! If you gain by doing it yourself, then keep on trucking.
When I need to move code around, or copy and paste some code, then I find it is busy work to manually format. This was my experience when I had an old computer and just wrote code in a basic text editor.
When working with XML files recently, I had no automatic formatting available and did it manually at first. I don't particularly want to remember the contents of config files! There are times when it is always good to have it done for you.
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I was talking more about code. XML i consider more like "forced markup" lol.
I can't blame you for wanting to auto-format XML if you're dealing with a bunch of it.
For me, when coding, especially javascript, it helps to do the formatting myself because it also helps me "see" the "scope" of my methods and classes, so my brain can quickly spot where a scope starts and ends, also helps me make less mistakes when creating new objects, or modifying existing stuff.
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Manual formatting is an alternative of course! If you gain by doing it yourself, then keep on trucking.
When I need to move code around, or copy and paste some code, then I find it is busy work to manually format. This was my experience when I had an old computer and just wrote code in a basic text editor.
When working with XML files recently, I had no automatic formatting available and did it manually at first. I don't particularly want to remember the contents of config files! There are times when it is always good to have it done for you.
Different strokes for different folks.
I was talking more about code. XML i consider more like "forced markup" lol.
I can't blame you for wanting to auto-format XML if you're dealing with a bunch of it.
For me, when coding, especially javascript, it helps to do the formatting myself because it also helps me "see" the "scope" of my methods and classes, so my brain can quickly spot where a scope starts and ends, also helps me make less mistakes when creating new objects, or modifying existing stuff.