Preserve Existing Line Breaks

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Preserve Existing Line Breaks

When the Preserve Existing Line Breaks option is on, the VLISP formatter inserts new lines whenever a new line is detected in the text it is formatting. When the option is off, the formatter can squeeze a multiple-line expression to the Plane style, if it fits within the right margin.

The following example shows how the Preserve Existing Line Breaks option works.

Initial text:

(if (/= s "Function canceled")   (princ (strcat 

    "\nError: "

      s)) ;single semicolon cmt

) 

Formatting result if the option is on (default):

(if (/= s "Function canceled")

  (princ (strcat

           "\nError: "

           s

         )

  )                                ;single semicolon cmt

)

Formatting result when the option is off:

(if (/= s "Function canceled")

  (princ (strcat "\nError: " s))    ;single semicolon cmt

) 

Note that multiple-line princ and strcat expressions are compressed to a single line.