Re: Pet Hate......
Re: Pet Hate......
- Subject: Re: Pet Hate......
- From: Michael David Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 04:27:24 -0700
When I was a system software engineer at Apple in the mid-nineties, I
advocated that all of us should do tech support one day per week, so
as to obtain greater insight into the needs of our users.
That went over like a lead balloon.
On 6/19/15, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Jun 2015, at 00:01, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 07:08 , Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Have you ever seen a header file with a comment that goes on forever on
>>> one line?
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> // This is a very long line of text that is supposed to be telling
>>> me something useful but I can’t see the end of it without scrolling
>>> horizontally because the developer couldn’t be bother to insert line
>>> returns, all I can say is that they must have gigantic screen to be able
>>> to make sense of it!
>>>
>>> Is there a utility I can run that would reformat it so all comment lines
>>> are a sensible width?
>>
>> Virtually all of Apple's files are like this. I don't like turning on wrap
>> except in readme files (because I hate it when lines of code are wrapped).
>
> Me too, if they changed it so the switch was actually in the Window rather
> than in preferences it would help.
>
>> I do wish Xcode would support reformatting comment blocks natively. Filing
>> a bug report, you should, too…
>
> Yes, that would be a really good feature.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
>
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