Block comments (/* */) Preferences setting to disable automatic "*" added for each newline

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When entering a block comment (/* comment here */), if I press Enter, Komodo IDE automatically adds " * ". There are many circumstances when no extra “*” is desired. There should be a setting in Preferences (probably a section in Smart Editing) to allow the user to disable this behavior.

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This is supposed to be Editor: Insert Newline in the key binding prefs. If you WANT the comments then you would use Shift + Enter (Editor: Insert Newline (continue comment)). But I guess that’s not how it works in JS files :S.

I’m not sure why there is a different command. I feel like the suggest pref here would have been a better way to go rather then implementing different commands.

If we go with this then we could eliminate these commands possibly. There are FIVE different new line commands…

  • Carey
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Wow. That’s a lot :slight_smile:

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+1
I hate those extra “*”, I always have to delete them.

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Agreed. I can’t think of a single instance when I did not have to delete them.

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I just remembered this post because I had to write a lot of comments today deleting the extra “*”.

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Ugh.

At the time, I was tempted to write a macro to handle them, but it was one of those cases of faster-just-to-do-it-than-automate-it. :slight_smile:

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I just tested this, but there is a command in you’re keymap “Editor: insert newline (align with current line)”.
If you use this command ( for me Ctrl + Shift + Return ) it will not continue the comment with a *.

If you never want to continue the comment with a *, you can probably just replace the default Return command with this command in you’re keymap settings.

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Thank you for that tip. Even though it does leave the cursor in column 2 (so you have to hit Backspace once to begin typing the comment text in column 1), it does avoid having to Backspace to delete any unwanted additional “*”. Also, once that first line of comment text has been entered, when you press Return to begin entering the second line of comment text (if any), no further Backspaces are needed.

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If you want to go back to the first column, the command “Editor: Insert newline (no favors)” is the command ( for me Ctrl + Return ) that you want to use. This will bring you to the first column instead of keeping the indentation allignment of the previous line.

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Thanks! I hadn’t even noticed that entry in the keybindings list.

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