Eclipse Semicolons Tales

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Lars Vogel

Eclipse has the option to put the semicolon at the right place in your coding.

For some very annoying reason my workspace had this feature disabled. In case you have the same activate it via the following:

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6 Responses to Eclipse Semicolons Tales

  1. Tom says:
    August 3, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Interesting… I always thought that nobody at all was using ‘Smart Semicolon’…

  2. andrew says:
    August 3, 2010 at 11:19 am

    What’s the effect of this feature?

  3. admin says:
    August 3, 2010 at 11:22 am

    @andrew Eclipse will put the semicolon at the right place in your coding, e.g. end of line.

  4. Greg says:
    August 3, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Thanks for the reminder. I had it set for Java but was having the same problem with JavaScript and couldn’t remember how to set it. I use this feature all the time and really like it.

  5. Gilles says:
    August 4, 2010 at 11:21 am

    @Andrew: It puts the semicolon at the end of the line, no matter at what position the cursor in that line is, while you type the ;

    .composite.dispose()

    ..composite.d>;<ispose()

    …composite.dispose() ;

  6. Peter Friese says:
    September 15, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    This is one of my favorite settings and one of the first things I activate in a fresh workspace (actually I’m using Google’s Eclipse Workspace Mechanic to automate this). I can’t imagine living without this feature!

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