Tabifier

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IncubatingThe tabifier plugin retabs Java code so that syntactic elements are aligned vertically. Extensive control over alignment is provided.
(This HTML parser does not support pre-formatted code, and runs the examples together. See http://web.archive.org/web/20071003121646/http://www.intellij.org/twiki/... for examples of the actual fomatting that the tabifier provides.)
For example, I like to align variable declarations and assignment statements like this: int v1; // loop variable String s2; // second string public static PrintWriter p; private static boolean debugging = true; // initialize private static OutputStream outputstream = null; outputstream = new FileOutputStream(f, true); p = new DebuggingPrintWriter(outputstream, true); IDEA likes to format them with single spaces separating the syntactic elements, like this: int v1; // loop variable String s2; // second string public static PrintWriter p; private static boolean debugging = true; // initialize private static OutputStream outputstream = null; outputstream = new FileOutputStream(f, true); p = new DebuggingPrintWriter(outputstream, true); The tabifier plugin automatically reformats the text into the first version, or any variation of it you choose. The Tabifier is able to right justify integer literals, for example: public static final int ONE = 1; public static final int TWO = 2; public static final int TEN = 10; public static final int ELEVEN = 11; It can align method declaration and method call parameters, even with multiple parameters per line: public ExpressionListParser(TokenColumn openParend, ColumnChoice params, TokenColumn closeParend, CodeStyleSettings codeStyleSettings, TabifierSettings settings, NestedParser parser, int nestingLevel) And its expression alignment is recursive, e.g. if ((psiExpressionList.getExpressions().length > expressionListIndex && psiExpressionList.getExpressions()[expressionListIndex] == child ) || (sawNoParameters == false && expressionListIndex > 0 ) ) It is capable of reformatting "if" statements as follows: if (param1 == p3 && j > 5 ) p3 = 7; .... if (param1 == p3) p3 = 6; else if (param1 == 2 ) method1(param1, true, 3); else param1 = 7; Method calls can be reformatted to align parentheses, commas, or parameters: align_params = (ColumnSetting ) find(ALIGN_PARAMS ); align_semicolon = (ColumnSetting ) find(ALIGN_SEMICOLON ); align_semicolon_with_comma = (BooleanSetting) find(ALIGN_SEMICOLON_WITH_COMMA); Typecast parentheses and types as well as many other expression components can also be aligned.