[DUG] D2006 Problem indenting lost

[John Bird]

This is the worst gripe I have about D2006.  It is minor enough, but is
driving me a bit batty: Old code I had nicely formatted in D5 gets all
jumbled when I look at it in D2006. I am getting tired of reformatting code
that has gone like:


	if alphasearch = false then
        begin
                searchlhs:=6;
                searchlen:=10;
        	codesrch:=format('%7s',[Searchstring])+'   ';	//puts in 7
spaces
		if dotpos > 0 then
                begin
                   codesrch:=format('%7s',[copy(Searchstring,1,dotpos-1)])
                    +copy(Searchstring,dotpos+1,3);
                    if length(codesrch) < 10 then
                      begin
                      	codesrch:=codesrch+'000';
                        setlength(codesrch,10);
                      end;
                end;
                x:=7;
		if dotpos > 0 then x:=10;	//leave .000 as spaces
                for tmpptr :=1 to x do
                	if codesrch[tmpptr] = ' ' then
codesrch[tmpptr]:='0';
        end;

As far as I can tell I only have to tidy it up once, but I keep hitting it
when I look at old code - it really looks like it has lost the plot.  Lots
of code indented an extra 3 tabstops, but not all consistent, a lot of
saw-tooth effects like here.

Anyone else struck this?

Are there any settings I should change?
(I am guessing the old code may have been formatted with a mixture of spaces
and tabs?)

Is this a known D2006 problem?

As far as I have found there is no code formatting tool in D2006 - I have
seen eg a beautify code option in Foxpro, this would be handy here.  I see
some nice component alignment tools, but nothing for code.

I should say, as annoying as it is, the other IDE features are more than
worth it.

John