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Christoph Grimmer
Christoph Grimmer

Reputation: 4313

Can IntelliJ IDEA automatically format a code block after finishing it?

Some IDEs offer the feature to automatically format a line or block of code after finishing it e.g. by writing the closing curly or semicolon. I find it hard to believe that IDEA does not offer this kind of feature. Or does it?

If you know how to turn it on - or if I maybe need some plugin - let me and the world know, please!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6138

Answers (2)

vikingsteve
vikingsteve

Reputation: 40388

If it's a single line, you can use the Complete Current Statement action (which adds a closing bracket, semi-colon, and so on) with ctrl-shift-enter - this seems to reformat the whole line.

Otherwise, you can obviously rebind ctrl-w and ctrl-alt-l (to reformat selected text) or just ctrl-alt-l (reformat whole file) to faster / easier keybindings so that you can quickly reformat whenever you want to.

Upvotes: 4

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 401965

There is no automatic reformat feature, related requests:

See also my answer to the similar question with the Complete Current Statement workaround.

Upvotes: 2

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