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Hi,

After a lot of Access + VBA programming, I am now moving to Java.

TextPad is said (on forums) to be good for coding Java...

But can it do the "typing correction" :
If I type "i= i+ 1" I would love to have it corrected in "i = i + 1"
or if I type "maclasse mc = new maclasse", can it correct it into "MaClasse toto = new MaClasse" as in the declaration "class MaClasse etc..."
As in VB...

nobody seems to worry about this feature, but it is very useful to type quickly and still have some clean code... (plus java is case sensitive => many typing error leads to compiling error...)

If it can do it, is it an option to configure ? how ?
If it can do it, I'll take it...


Thank you for your advice
Antoine

This cannot be done with TextPad (to my knowledge).

Here's my personal opinion. Kindly disregard this:

I worry when I see programmers wanting this feature. For getting clean code, I agree that this would be a nice feature. You could probably write a macro that did the clean-up (and you could post it to www.textpad.com, so that others too could enjoy it), and run it when you like. But for case conversion... Don't you think, as a programmer, that it would be better if you were in <i>complete control</i> yourself? I have done some VB programming (very little!), and spent very much time cursing and being annoyed that my class names were changed all the time...

Regards,
HY

I agree with HY here.... Java coding is an art.... Correct case, clean code and related stuff is one of the things a java-coder has to know, it's a SKILL... VB sux in that area.. you can write a complete program in upper case and it would still work... *YUK*...

I agree with HY here.... Java coding is an art.... Correct case, clean code and related stuff is one of the things a java-coder has to know, it's a SKILL... VB sux in that area.. you can write a complete program in upper case and it would still work... *YUK*...

I agree with HY here.... Java coding is an art.... Correct case, clean code and related stuff is one of the things a java-coder has to know, it's a SKILL... VB sux in that area.. you can write a complete program in upper case and it would still work... *YUK*...