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Bug 447890

Summary:	[formatter] New blank line added on each formatting attempt after <pre>
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Mauro Molinari <mauromol>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Mateusz Matela <mateusz.matela>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	jarthana, mateusz.matela
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	4.8 M5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	To be verified for 4.8 M5

Description Mauro Molinari

2014-10-20 07:07:22 EDT

Create the following Java class:

package a;

/**
 * Test.
 *
 * <pre>
 * String handler = &quot;test&quot;;
 * </pre>
 */
public class JavaPre {
}

Then, try to format it repeatedly with Ctrl+Shift+F: on each format, a new blank line is added after <pre>. After the first Ctrl+Shift+F:

package a;

/**
 * Test.
 *
 * <pre>
 *
 * String handler = &quot;test&quot;;
 * </pre>
 */
public class JavaPre {
}

After the second Ctrl+Shift+F:

package a;

/**
 * Test.
 *
 * <pre>
 *
 *
 * String handler = &quot;test&quot;;
 * </pre>
 */
public class JavaPre {
}

And so on. It's extremely annoying, since it changes the source on each format attempt. If you have "format all lines" as a Save Action, it's detrimental.

Note: it might be somewhat related to bug #231845.

Comment 1 Mateusz Matela

2018-01-06 20:54:37 EST

This problem no longer occurs after the formatter redesign

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 303519 ***