Configuring code style
If certain coding guidelines exist in a company, one has to follow these guidelines when creating source code. MPS helps you maintain the required code style.
Code styles are defined at the project level and at the IDE level (global).
- At the Project level, settings are grouped under the Project scheme, which is predefined and is marked in bold. The Project style scheme is applied to the current project only.
You can copy the Project scheme to the IDE level, using the Copy to IDE... command.
- At the IDE level, settings are grouped under the predefined Default scheme (marked in bold), and any other scheme created by the user by the Duplicate command (marked as plain text). Global settings are used when the user doesn't want to keep code style settings with the project and share them.
You can copy the IDE scheme to the current project, using the Copy to Project... command.
Configure the code style for a language
In the Settings/Preferences dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), click Code Style, and then click the language in question.
Choose the code style scheme to be used as the base for your custom coding style for the selected language.
Browse through the tabs of the selected language page, and configure code style preferences for it.
Copy the code style settings from other languages
For most of the supported languages, you can copy code style settings from other languages or frameworks.
In the Settings/Preferences dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), click Code Style, and then click the language in question.
Click Set From in the upper-right corner.
From the list that appears, select the language to copy the code style from.