RADProgrammer Style Guide Code Formatter

• Utilize the RAD Studio source code formatter to help enforce a specific set of rules for enhanced clarity
• Automatically format the currently selected text, the current file, or all units in the current project
• A customized profile configuration file is available for download from GitHub
• More info: Embarcadero docwiki page

Many configurable options are available in five main areas

• Indentation
• Spacing
• Line breaks
• Capitalization
• Alignment
• More info: Embarcadero docwiki page

IDE formatting feature introduced in Delphi 2010

• Handled by Bin\Embarcadero.Modeling.Formatter.dll
• More info: Embarcadero docwiki page

The formatting feature was greatly expanded in Delphi XE

• Formatting profiles introduced to Load/Save/Restore configuration files
  • User code formatting profiles are stored in %AppData%\Embarcadero\BDS\{version}
  • Default profiles are stored in \Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\{version}\bin\config
  • XML configurations stored as Formatter_*.config
  • More info: Embarcadero docwiki page
• New option added to format all units of the current project

Standalone formatter available for command-line usage

• Utility: bin\formatter.exe
• Can format a single file or use wildcard options to format all files recursively in the directory and all subdirectories
• More info: Embarcadero docwiki page