AVR Freaks

In the past I've simply inserted as many line feeds as it takes to get a break onto the "next page". But I haven't really printed anything for 15+ years now so haven't really needed look for better ways. Like Andy I can't think of any recent IDE that offers this (that I've noticed anyway). What I'd probably do is use a code coloriser (several online sites offer this) then paste the result into Word then add the breaks there.

I do occasionally find it useful to print out snippets of code. More that 1 page would be unusual.

 

What I do is  to select a suitable amount of the code, and then use the editor's 'Print Selection' feature.

I guess that should be doable for 10 pages ... ?

 

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Another option:

 

Sometimes, when you copy code from a syntax-highlighting editor into Word, the syntax-highlighting gets into the Word doc - so you could then use Word to do the pagination ...

 

 

(other word processors are available - they may or may not behave similarly)

Yea ... seems to be web based now.

C-to-HTML then the reviewer can operate a web browser because some reviewers (ones in SQA, managers) don't have the IDE.

 

If you want to impress your reviewers, then use Doxygen.

Doxygen can extract comment & code and genereate cross referenced and indexed HTML pages for documenting your code.

 

A trick I used long ago is to directly input a Form Feed character into the source code comment. (oops, already mentioned)

In the dos age his was easy. You could hold the ALT key and then type the ascii value of the character you wanted (12 in this case) on the numeric keypad.

 

For work I once had to find a bug in a badly written function. Lots of loops if / else and other stuff. (Written by somebody else of course). After staring at it for several hours I still got lost in the code and to get some overview of that single function I printed the whole thing on paper and glued the pages together (This was after the dot matrix age). It was 7 or 8 pages.

 

To Awneil: Do you have a multiple monitor setup? In this age & day it would be silly to work from a single monitor, unless you have a really big one (I still want a 34" 4k monitor for code writing & CAD design). Rotating the monitor also helps a lot. I have 2 24" monitors of a pretty common 1920x1200 resolution, which I can rotate at will. Usually Portrait on the left (for code & web sites) Landscape on the right for my logic analyser. (it's off at the moment). I write my code in Qt Creator and I can get 121 lines of easily readable text with this setup. Added a screenshot. It's only 1048 pixels wide so I still have easy accesisble other windows (file browrser, terminal)  next to it.

(Edit: AvrFreaks scales images, so for looking at readability you have to make sure it's 1:1)

Code won't have heavily nested while / if / else if it's regularly checked for cyclomatic complexity (preferably on every push to master)

I, one who destroys hinges 

Thanks though!