Automatically formatting a line with semicolon in netbeans

Question

Yet another silly question. I am using netbeans, and need to know how to autoformat a line when I type semicolon.

Example

type var=new type();
type var = new type();

Visual Studio has this feature, but you have to use C# and I'm trying to learn the underlying features of Java — Tom Magaro, May 27 '19 at 15:20
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1311912/how-do-i-autoindent-in-netbeans — Mike Adamenko, May 27 '19 at 16:05
I'm aware of the keyboard shortcut, but it would be nice if when complete a line with a semicolon, the line would automatically format. — Tom Magaro, May 28 '19 at 20:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 29 '19 at 14:13

To accomplish this do the following

Type in the statement without hitting the semicolon
Click on the red circle on editor toolbar(Start Macro Recording)
Type a semicolon followed by alt shift F followed by a backspace(needed to remove extra semicolon)
Click on the icon Stop Macro Recording (next to the Start)

NetBeans will prompt you for a macro name, I called mine formatline

Completing a statement with a semicolon will now reformat the the line.

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