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Auto-format comments: tab deletion [message #1714259]

Wed, 11 November 2015 08:27

Alexander Meier

Messages: 5
Registered: November 2013

Junior Member

Hello everyone,

I have the following problem: I have a member + Doxygen comment that looks like this:

int foo;                          /**< Some Doxygen comment */

When I hit Ctrl+Shift+F to auto-format, all the space between the member and the comment gets deleted, no matter whether they are spaces or tabs. I went through all auto-format options but I couldn't find a way to make the auto-formatter stop from doing that. The following comment-style doesn't work either:

int foo;                          ///< Some Doxygen comment

I use Eclipse for C++ on Linux. Can Eclipse do this somehow? And if it can't: Is there an auto-formatter available that lets me configure this? It doesn't have to be an Eclipse plugin, i.e. I'd be willing to use a separate software for this. I know in JAVA Eclipse you can use "// @formatter:off" and "// @formatter:on" to define blocks the formatter has to leave alone, but in C++ it doesn't work.

Cheers
Alex

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Re: Auto-format comments: tab deletion [message #1714286 is a reply to message #1714259]

Wed, 11 November 2015 11:49

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

It's best to ask about CDT on the eclipse.tools.cdt forum.

On 11/11/2015 9:27 AM, Alexander Meier wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have the following problem: I have a member + Doxygen comment that
> looks like this:
> int foo; /**< Some Doxygen comment */
> When I hit Ctrl+Shift+F to auto-format, all the space between the
> member and the comment gets deleted, no matter whether they are spaces
> or tabs. I went through all auto-format options but I couldn't find a
> way to make the auto-formatter stop from doing that. The following
> comment-style doesn't work either:
> int foo; ///< Some Doxygen comment
> I use Eclipse for C++ on Linux. Can Eclipse do this somehow? And if it
> can't: Is there an auto-formatter available that lets me configure
> this? It doesn't have to be an Eclipse plugin, i.e. I'd be willing to
> use a separate software for this. I know in JAVA Eclipse you can use
> "// @formatter:off" and "// @formatter:on" to define blocks the
> formatter has to leave alone, but in C++ it doesn't work.
>
> Cheers
> Alex

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