OMEdit: Improve commenting of folded lines - but how?

[janK]

Commenting out folded lines in a hurry will result in syntax errors, as only the first line is commented out. It would be convenient if all lines are commented automatically.
One possibility is to add a // at the beginning of every other line. Another possibility is to replace the just typed // into a /* and to add a */ at the end of the folded part.

Removing the comments should follow the same automatic behavior.

What do you think? Or is it only me, who noticed that? - This is a discussion ticket!

[adeas31]

I think there is no easy solution to it.
I suggest that we should unfold the block and let user decide what to comment/uncomment.

I tried some other editors like Qt Creator, Notepad++ and Visual Studio. Qt Creator and Notepad++ does exactly the way we are doing right now. However, Visual Studio unfolds the following section if the line which starts the fold is commented out.

[adeas31]

I just added support for automatically unfolding the commented out block d79a354/OMEdit.

Note that if folding is in between comment then it doesn't matter.

[janK]

Automatically unfolding the line is a simple and elegant solution. This will do the job as it will make the wrong syntax more obvious to the user now. You can close the ticket if you like.

[janK]

I've just checked the new behavior in the latest nightly build. In my case, it will NOT automatically open the folding when I type //. I use the standard two-line style which is given by OMEdit (e.g. if you place a resitstor in the Diagram View). In this OMEdit style, the line ends with annotation( and the next line is indented with two spaces.

BTW: I really prefer exactly this two-line annotation style to the style which is used in the MSL and which is very inconsistent...

[casella]

Rescheduled to 1.14.0 after 1.13.0 releasee

[casella]

Releasing 1.14.0 which is stable and has many improvements w.r.t. 1.13.2. This issue is rescheduled to 1.16.0

[casella]

Retargeted to 1.17.0 after 1.16.0 release

[casella]

Retargeted to 1.18.0 because of 1.17.0 timed release.

[janK]

@adeas31: You thought you fixed this ticket with 'd79a354/OMEdit'.
The idea to simply unfold the lines is great!

But as I pointed out (4 years ago), OMEdit will not do that when typing: //
(tested with the latest version).

Can you please check, what is going on? Thanks!

[casella]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed