Ah!

RBConfigurableFormatter class>>settingsOn: is missing one setting
----
(aBuilder setting: #retainBlankLinesBetweenStatements)
label: 'Retain blank lines between statements'.
----


As for the comments, I looked at RBConfigurableFormatter>>formatStatementCommentsFor:
one idea might be to look at the space between end of the statement and beginning of the comment and if there is newline present then preserve it.

something like
--------------------------
formatStatementCommentsFor: aStatementNode
originalSource isNil
ifTrue: [ ^ self ].
FormatCommentWithStatements
ifFalse: [ ^ self ].
aStatementNode statementComments
do: [ :each |��
(self newLinesBeforeStartingAt: each first) > 0
ifTrue: [ self newLine ]
ifFalse: [ codeStream tab ].

codeStream nextPutAll: (originalSource copyFrom: each first to: each last) ]
---------------------------

There should be also an accompanying setting #retainBlankLineBeforeComments.

Peter


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:45 PM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Hi peter


Is it possible to configure formatter to preserve empty lines and line comments?

I do not know :)



e.g.
--------------
myMethod
someCode.
< empty line that I would like to preserve >
moreCode.
---------------
But I think that should be customizable.



the formatter also automatically puts comments on the end of the previous statement.
e.g.
------
someCode.
"a comment"
moreCode.

If I recall, the problem is that comments are not a node but an attribute of a node.
We should try to fix that. It is not clear where you always want to put them.


----
ends up as
----
someCode. "a comment"
moreCode.
-----

Both those behaviors seems odd to me.

I've seen empty newlines and line comments in Pharo code... so either I missed some setting or people just don't use the formatter?
I use the formatter and I would like to use it much more systemaitcally.

Thanks,
Peter