How to tell eclipse to not format parts of a codefile (pressing Strg + Shift + F)

Question

I really love the autofromat feature. I makes your code more readable and in case of JavaScript tells you, when there are synatcs errors (missing brackets etc.).

However

Answer 1

OK, it took me some time to find the right setting so I will post a toturial here.

Go to Window Preferences and Search the Formatter you are using. In my case it was under 'Aptana Studia' -> 'Formatter'. (Depending on your Package this differs, e.g. the Java Formatter is under 'Java' -> 'Code Style' -> 'Formater').

Noww create a new Build profile since you can't override the old one.

Now enable the Formatter tags.

Now you can use the

 - @formatter:on
 - @formatter:off

tags to disable code formatting.

Example: this code:

    function hello() {             return 'hello';
}

//@formatter:off
/*
   |\      _,,,---,,_
   /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_
  |,4-  ) )-,_..;\ (  `'-'
 '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)  fL

 */
//@formatter:on

function 


world() {
    return 'world';
}

Will get formatted to like this

function hello() {
    return 'hello';
}

//@formatter:off
/*
   |\      _,,,---,,_
   /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_
  |,4-  ) )-,_..;\ (  `'-'
 '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)  fL

 */
//@formatter:on

function world() {
    return 'world';
}

Note how the function definition is formatted correct, while the ascii art isn't

Credits:

1. Katja Christiansen for his comment
2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/3353765/639035 : for a similar answer