Hi Joel,
Welcome. I never use the GUI format option because it is very aggressive with parenthesis regardless of the context. E.g. let $num := abs($d) becomes: let $num := abs( $d ) But obviously it should not be messing with strings. I am not aware of any workarounds.
/Andy
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 03:05, Joel Kalvesmaki director@textalign.net wrote:
Hi everyone, I just joined. BaseX is awesome (as y'all know).
I like CTRL+SHIFT+F for formatting, but it is also messing up string values, which especially wreaks havoc with regular expressions. That is...
let $regex := "(a|z)"...becomes...
let $regex := "( a|z )"I didn't see anything in the documentation or archives about micromanaging the formatting. Is the best practice to avoid formatting altogether? Or is there a hidden pragma to exempt lines from being formatted?
Joel
Joel Kalvesmaki Director, Text Alignment Network http://textalign.net