To paste it open the editor and click on HTML. ![]() The HTML code is copied directly into the clipboard. If you have the Arduino IDE you get this HTML export for the C code that generates colored and formatted HTML that looks exactly as in the editor. We now copy HTMLized code from somewhere into the LMR editor. Here I introduce two simple ways to get formatted code. There is good tool support for this task. Let a software do the job. To format your code go ahead and use a tool that translates your source-code directly to HTML. So stick to the principle of the least astonishment and format the code as exact as possible to the language formatting guidelines. use red scary font for exception handling code, green fat code for the code you are most proud of and underline the code that smells? Did you ever used Word to make some fancy formatting with your code? I.e. The more our code differs from the common formatting guidelines the more astonishment we introduce to the reader. And this quality-attribute is essential in complex software like a lot of our robots here at LMR. It's that having a well formatted code that is readable increases the understandability. we've all done and do that - work with bare metal Notepad as an example. Not that you can't work with un-formatted code. Every language has it's own keywords and own formatting guidelines and the todays editors support that. Editors format the code to visually dictinct between language keywords, idioms and your hand crafted code. highlight the Java code in the Java-way and C in the C-way. What is intentional we shall not loose. The language specific formatting shall not disapear just because we post it online or here at LMR.Īgain, most of the todays IDEs and source-code editors have language features that i.e. This code density is something you add to your code as a concept. One expression for something in the system. Write the struct so that you see on one glimpse that this is a data unit. a void or a or a null or int or TheBestReturnValueEver or TheWorstExceptionEver.Īnd you might use code density to express what belongs together. In these general purpose languages you may want to see the signatures and types and what this signatures and types imply i.e. The concepts of the system, the abstractions and the data, the mechanics and domain it is targeted to.Īlso you may focus on function names and types in C or on classes and methods in Java. Or you read it because someone else has wrote it, and you try to understand it. ![]() You seek through it on the mission to find that bug. In between all this refactorings you read the code. You program this code, refactor it to a pattern, refactor it to better testability, add a new skill, refactor it to be more domain specific, refactor it to more isolation and modularisation and add a new quality so that every change is transactional or a watchdog for realtime control. Therefore it is worth to pay attention on how this code is presented to you. Whenever you write source code, you know that you are going to read the code several times more than write. If you know why then scroll down to the screen shots to see how. but first: Let me argue why this is important. In this article you learn how you can copy & paste your source-code and keep all the formatting. Did you ever copy & paste your source-code from your IDE or editor into an LMR articleĪnd found out that all syntax highlighting and formatting is gone?ĭid you ever tried to help a fellow LMRian with his software problemīut struggled with the readability of the source-code in a sans-serif font with huge word wraps?
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