_Maxxx_ wrote:

Some of your reasoning is valid (in my view) but I always think that this obsession some programmers have with the reduction in keystrokes (I'd have to press TAB all the time to indent, I don't want to type two extra braces if I don't need to etc.) is plain silly.

+10000 And yet some of these same programmers will UseCrazyLongMethodNamesLongerThanTheMethod unnecessarily. Something I'd like to see in an IDE is separate view and save format options. Open a file for editing, it reformats to my liking. Hit save and what gets written to disk is formatted to whatever the rest of the team wants to see, or some corporate standard, or whatever. Could make debugging tricky, especially if line numbers change. Or maybe put that functionality into the source management. Repository contains some canonical form of the code (maybe even an XML representation or something else) and when checked out your desired format is applied. Check in would convert back to the canonical form. Almost like using CSS to style HTML.