I recently switchet to Kate from Geany and i really miss this feature. I belive that it can be a valid new feature that should be considered in future releases, since many people who use Kate for programming can benefit from it. It works very simple, when you start a multiline (or documentation) comment (usually starting with /* or /**), most of the time you want the comment to continue on following lines like this: /** * @return void */ Automatic handlig of the continuation (when I hit enter after the first line, Kate automaticaly indents, writes the "*" on second line and ideally a space after) would be exceptionaly useful, especially for languages like PHP (no native annotations support, so there is a heavy use of doc comments), but I believe others could benefit from this either. Ofcourse, this would be best as an optional feature, enabled/disabled in settings. Reproducible: Always
Which indenter do you use? In fact, the "C Style" indenter does exactly what you want. Could you try this? And: What version of Kate do you use?
Ok, now I feel really stupid :-). I had no idea that using the C indenter will help, i had indenter set to "None". It works perfectly, thank you for the pointer and sorry for pointless feature request.