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Adequat
Tomato Guru

182 Posts

Posted - Jun 13 2018 : 06:45:39 AM

"Add Include" is a great feature that I use a lot. When there is an existing
#include "stuff.h"
then "Add Include" insert the statement at a good place. So far so good.

But if there is none, then the #include statement is inserted at the very top of the file... but in my case, in I guess in the case of many, the top of the file starts with a header, for example:

/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Project     : ...
	Created by  : ...
	Description :

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

"Add Include" inserts the #include before that comment. And this is not good.
Hence my suggestion:

Insert the #include after the first comment block of the file, if that comment block starts at the very top of the file.

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19022 Posts

Posted - Jun 14 2018 : 05:56:51 AM

This makes a lot of sense. I just want to double check a couple of possible edge cases first though.

Do you run into this in header files, or do you only ever use Add Include in .cpp files? I am thinking about the #pragma once line that a lot of header files start with.

Also, due to a very old habit due to an old Vi bug under Unix, I tend to always start my files with a blank line. So the header comment block tends to start one line down in the file. Would being strict about the comment at the very top of the file be good enough?

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