Bug 96696

Summary:	[formatting] Should not remove blank lines in front of non-alphanumeric start of line in non-javadoc comments
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Christopher Oezbek <bugzilla>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Frederic Fusier <frederic_fusier>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P5	CC:	bugzilla, philippe_mulet
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	3.5 M4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Christopher Oezbek

2005-05-25 16:17:19 EDT

This problem can be found when writing non-javadoc comments using the following 
settings:

  * Everything disabled but comment formatting.

The following comment 

/*
 * Conceptually, all viewers perform two primary tasks:
 *  
 * - They help adapt your domain objects into viewable entities
 * 
 * - They provide notifications when the viewable entities are selected or
 * changed through the UI
 */

is formatted into (upon CTRL+SHIFT+F)

/*
 * Conceptually, all viewers perform two primary tasks:
 *  - They help adapt your domain objects into viewable entities
 *  - They provide notifications when the viewable entities are selected or
 * changed through the UI
 */

which is formatted into (upon CTRL+SHIFT+F)

/*
 * Conceptually, all viewers perform two primary tasks: - They help adapt your
 * domain objects into viewable entities - They provide notifications when the
 * viewable entities are selected or changed through the UI
 */

----

The expected behavior can be seen when replacing the - with an o:

/*
 * Conceptually, all viewers perform two primary tasks:
 * 
 * o They help adapt your domain objects into viewable entities
 * 
 * o They provide notifications when the viewable entities are selected or
 * changed through the UI
 */

Stays without being changed.

Thanks for your great work, Eclipse Team!

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2005-05-25 16:30:09 EDT

Is it just that case or would you rather see that you can disable formatting for
traditional and single line comments?

Comment 2 Christopher Oezbek

2005-05-25 16:43:39 EDT

I think the formatter is very useful to break at 80 characters, that is why I 
leave it enabled.

Using something like a bullet point * or - in a kind of Wiki-syntax is more 
readable in source code than <li> <ul> <p>.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2005-05-25 17:19:05 EDT

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2005-10-10 12:17:16 EDT

Ownership changed.

Comment 5 Olivier Thomann

2007-06-21 12:04:24 EDT

Block comment formatting can now be disabled.
Is this good enough?

Comment 6 Christopher Oezbek

2007-06-22 09:15:31 EDT

Hi Olivier,
  I would prefer, if instead of just switching comment formatting for non-javadoc comments on and off, one could specify more precisely whether the formatter should...

  a.) ...just indent but preserve newlines

  b.) ...break at 80 characters.

Thanks,
  Christopher

Comment 7 Frederic Fusier

2008-12-03 07:16:28 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 239130 ***

Comment 8 Kent Johnson

2008-12-09 14:08:16 EST

Verified for 3.5M4 using I20081209-0100