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Pelles C => Feature requests => Topic started by: YellowBeast on May 03, 2014, 07:47:15 PM
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I like to sort the #include'd header files.
It would be nice if the editor in Pelles C would allow you to select text, then sort its lines.
(For example, in Sublime Text 2 the F9 key sorts selected lines.)
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I like to sort the #include'd header files.
It would be nice if the editor in Pelles C would allow you to select text, then sort its lines.
(For example, in Sublime Text 2 the F9 key sorts selected lines.)
Doesn't make much sense to me.... ???
Sort by what criteria?
Ralf
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Doesn't make much sense to me.... ???
Sort by what criteria?
Sort alphabetically. For example:
#include <string.h>
#include <float.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
// would become
#include <float.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
By ordering the lines, it can be easier to check which headers are included.
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Sounds like a very specialized feature - for you, and probably only you. No thanks.
An add-in could do the job.
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Sometimes a header file needs to be first than others.
Changing the order you will take errors.
Manos.
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By ordering the lines, it can be easier to check which headers are included.
That makes sense, but keep in mind Manos' point (although normally the order shouldn't matter - if you have redefinitions, then the header files need to be controlled).
Anyway, attached a simple exe that sorts the clipboard. It asks for confirmation to replace the clipboard with its sorted version.
Assembler source is included, *.asc = *.rtf, opens inter alia in WordPad and MS Word.
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Sometimes a header file needs to be first than others.
Changing the order you will take errors.
Manos.
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Actually quite a lot of times, the order of the header files might be important and just sorting the header files out of laziness is much more likely to create dependency problems...
I am programming in C for a bit more than 30 years now and can not say that I have run into a single case where that would have been helpful...
Ralf
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#include <windows.h>
#include <commctrl.h>
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Point taken. Thanks, Timo.
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Some times I use the editor to edit a file but if I must sort the lines I copy them and paste into Notepad++ the I recopy to Pelle's editor. There is simpler.