Yeah, that's why I think it would be great if the RB engine could be extended with a(n optional) hook to call some "local/personal" formatter instead of reformatting immediately. This way we could at least make sure that the reformatting happens according to our taste and in line with whatever we use to format our code. Preserving the old formatting is likely to not be a good idea at least for some refactorings lie extract method, in addition to possibly being difficult.

The plus of such a plugin/hook approach is that this could probably be maintainable cross-platform. Every dialect could plug their formatter without changing RBs internals. I don't know if there still exists some "common code base" of RB at all, so maybe this is just stupid blah blah anyways���

Joachim 

cheers -ben

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 01:34, Vitor Medina Cruz <vitormcruz@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

When I run a refactoring, Rename Method, for example, the refactoring is reformatting the code affected. Is it possible to configure Pharo to refactor without reformatting code? Depending on the refactoring, the reformat is so intrusive that make it more worth to make the refactoring by hand.

Regards,

Vitor

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