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How to autowrap comments [message #1785976]

Mon, 23 April 2018 17:43

Elie Richa

Messages: 14
Registered: February 2016

Junior Member

Hello,

I would like to have the XText formatter of my language auto-wrap multi-line comments, and maybe even single-line comments (by joining together successive single-line comments).

So far I have been able to perform auto-wrapping for semantic elements by calling "autowrap" before or after certain keywords of the grammar. However comments are handled by MultilineCommentReplacer and SinglelineDocCommentReplacer.

I know that I can provide my own implementations of these classes by overriding AbstractFormatter2::createCommentReplacer() but I have no idea what I should do in the implementations that I provide.

Any hints? :)

Thanks!

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Elie

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Re: How to autowrap comments [message #1785978 is a reply to message #1785976]

Mon, 23 April 2018 18:14

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 12388
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

i have no idea how to properly implement it or elegantly but if you move to logic completely to your code you could try something like (just a starting point

if(ruleName.startsWith("ML")) return new MultilineCommentReplacer(comment, Character.valueOf('*').charValue) {
				
				override createReplacements(ITextReplacerContext context) {
					var ITextRegionAccess access = comment.getTextRegionAccess();
					val region = access.regionForOffset(comment.offset, comment.length)
					context.addReplacement(region.replaceWith("/* TODO */"))
					context
				}
				
			}

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