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Pooja ShahPooja Shah 

Formatting code in Eclipse

To use the built in formatter of Eclipse we can ideally use the ctrl+shift+F key. However this doesnt seem to work when I try formatting my apex classes.
Can anyone tell me if I need to change some settings to format the code?


JonPJonP
In Summer '08, the Force.com IDE does not support Apex code formatting.
Alexander_EAlexander_E

Here it is written, that you can use the java editor to indent your code..

for me, this works fine!

 

http://stackoverflow.com/a/8811156
Chirag MehtaChirag Mehta

As Alexander pointed out use JAVA editor and JAVA formatting option to format Apex Code

 

Apex classes and triggers use a different editor than Java. The auto formatter (or code alignment) does not work with Apex Code (or the Apex Code Editor). I couldn't get CTRL-SHIFT+F to work in the most recent version of Eclipse with the Force.com IDE, either.

I believe this is because the auto formatter is designed to work with Java only.
However, if you switch to the Java perspective and open your Apex class with the Java Editor, CTRL+I does correct indentation properly.

Source : http://stackoverflow.com/a/8806871/445594