NetBeans 5.5-beta painfully close to being useful
I've spent the past week or so checking out NetBeans 5.5 beta. It's got an incredibly well-integrated Maven plugin that makes life really easy, and I find that its interface is really intuitive and responsive. In short, it's a tool I'd really love to use. Unfortunately for me, I work on several development teams, and consistent code formatting really is critical, to help ensure SVN diffs are readable. This is one place where it seems that NetBeans is sorely lacking. I poked and prodded for hours, but have been unable to configure anything more than indentation level for wrapped lines. No way to specify where I want wrapped method arguments to go (aligned with the start of the arguments on the previous line, thank you very much). No way to tell it where I want throws and extends clauses to go. I even did some searching around via Google for third-party plugins that might make this possible, but the results are disappointing. After using NetBeans for a couple of days, I'm very motivated to use it, but this ...
Posted on May 30, 2006 11:57:11 AM EDT
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