Bug 80081

Summary: It would be nice if the auto-formatter included an auto wrap/justify feature for comments.
Product: [Applications] kdevelop Reporter: Robert Shideleff <bigbob>
Component: generalAssignee: KDevelop Developers <kdevelop-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Robert Shideleff 2004-04-21 20:14:46 UTC
Version:           3.0.1 (using KDE 3.2.1, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.6-rc1

Kate has a very cool presentation/view feature where it auto-wraps comments and indents them properly on the next line. No carriage return is added to the line, it just wraps it on the display. This (while VERY cool) sort of takes away my impetus to actually format my comments, which means that they are more or less unreadable for other people.

I got used to xemacs' ability (back when I used it) to auto justify and re-flow comments on demand. I think it would be very useful to either provide this feature while typing (probably as an addition to the kate part), or to add an option to the auto-format function to re-flow and wrap long comment lines. Possibly both are in order...
Comment 1 Andreas Pakulat 2008-06-29 19:30:15 UTC
this is a wish for astyle, needs to be reported upstream.