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| Suggestion - comment width [message #753496] |
Thu, 27 October 2011 13:38  |
 Jim 
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2011 |
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If this is the forum for making suggestions (and it seems that it is not, but I could not find one), please advise.
The formatting options for Java provides a "maximum line width" for comments, as well as code. I'm sure this is useful when printing, but I can't remember the last time I printed any code, so this limit is less than useful for me. For code that becomes "wide" due to nesting, some comments end up being
a narrow
column of
text, like
this,
scrunched
at the
right side
of the
screen.
What I would like to propose is an alternative, so as to preserve current functionality (not break anything), which would be to set a true maximum comment width v. a "line width". The comment width I propose would limit the width of a comment, no matter in which column it started. A value of say 80, would limit a comment block's width to 80 columns, no matter if it started in column 1 or column 100. As it stands now, setting the widths for code and comments to 150 (yes I do, I have long variable names), gives me comment blocks 150 columns wide and they are quite unreadable. I would set the comment width to around 80 and the maximum line width to 150, the latter would still clamp the comments, but at least left-most comments won't be too wide to read.
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| Re: Suggestion - comment width [message #753535 is a reply to message #753496] |
Thu, 27 October 2011 15:21  |
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On 27-Oct-11 07:38, Jim wrote:
> If this is the forum for making suggestions (and it seems that it is
> not, but I could not find one), please advise.
>
> The formatting options for Java provides a "maximum line width" for
> comments, as well as code. I'm sure this is useful when printing, but I
> can't remember the last time I printed any code, so this limit is less
> than useful for me. For code that becomes "wide" due to nesting, some
> comments end up being
> a narrow
> column of
> text, like
> this,
> scrunched
> at the right side
> of the
> screen.
>
> What I would like to propose is an alternative, so as to preserve
> current functionality (not break anything), which would be to set a true
> maximum comment width v. a "line width". The comment width I propose
> would limit the width of a comment, no matter in which column it
> started. A value of say 80, would limit a comment block's width to 80
> columns, no matter if it started in column 1 or column 100. As it stands
> now, setting the widths for code and comments to 150 (yes I do, I have
> long variable names), gives me comment blocks 150 columns wide and they
> are quite unreadable. I would set the comment width to around 80 and the
> maximum line width to 150, the latter would still clamp the comments,
> but at least left-most comments won't be too wide to read.
The "forum" for making suggestions is Eclipse's Bugzilla.
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