14.4 Vertical Alignment

When enabled, this option performs vertical alignment.

Vertical Alignment Tokens

The lines of code inside the same scope are aligned by the specified list of vertical alignment tokens.

if(a) begin       if(a) begin
x = 1;            x  = 1;   // aligned by '=' inside the if scope
xx = 1;           xx = 1;
end else begin    end else begin
xxx = 1;          xxx  = 1; // aligned by '=' inside the else scope, orthogonal to the if scope above
xxxx = 1;         xxxx = 1;
end               end

Vertical alignment is performed left to right, by the same token. For example assuming '=' and ':' as vertical align tokens:

var x : int = 1; // "first level :", "second level ="
var xx : int = 1;

a = 1; // not aligned to "second level =" above, as this is a "first level ="
aa = 1;

In order to use the comma character ',' as a vertical alignment token, the character must be preceded by the escaping character '\'.

Only Consecutive Lines - Controls whether vertical alignment is applied only to consecutive lines.

Vertical Align Single Line Comments - Controls whether single line comments are vertically aligned.

Vertical Align To Open Parenthesis - Controls whether to vertically align relative to open parenthesis.

Vertical Align Patterns
- Constant Declarations - Controls whether to align constant declarations.
- Port Declarations - Controls whether to align port declarations.
- Signal Declarations - Controls whether to align signal declarations.
- Variable Declarations - Controls whether to align variable declarations.
- Variable, Signal, Constant Declarations - Controls whether to align variable, signal and constant declarations.