Automatic asterisk at start of a new line about doxdocgen

[deg0nz]

OK, I just found a workaround for this (sometimes googling helps ;) ).
I installed the Auto Comment Blocks extension and reinstalled your extension, now everything works as expected.

I don't know, if your extension should handle this... It's your decision.
It works for me now though...

[cschlosser]

Hey!

I'm not quite sure what the problem is.

Could you add a bit more detail (maybe even a gif?) when the generated line starts without an asterisk?

[deg0nz]

Hmm... gif would be tricky for some reasons.... sorry
I try to explain it otherwise:

Some IDEs (like Eclipse afaik) automatically create a new line matching the current comment style when creating a new line in the comment. For example by adding an asterisk at the beginning of a new line when using multi-line comments.

Currently, when I press return in a comment to create a new line, it just creates a new line. When I want the new line to look like all the other ones, I have to add an asterisk to the new line manually.

Another example:

This is the original comment:

/**
 * @brief
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb
 */

When I just add some new lines after "Blah, Blah, Blubb" to this comment, It looks like this:

/**
 * @brief
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb




 */

But it would be nice, if it looks like this:

/**
 * @brief
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb
 *
 *
 *
 *
 */

I hope, this makes it more clear

[cschlosser]

I'm not quite sure that this is a problem with this extension but more with how VS Code deals with comments.

Just to be clear:

/**
 * @brief
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb<cursor position>
 */

Case 1: Now you press enter when the cursor is at the last character of Blubb

This is what happens for me then:

/**
 * @brief 
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb
 * <cursor position>
 */

Case 2: If I copy a block of newlines and insert it (using crtl-c + ctrl-v) I get this result:

/**
 * @brief 
 * 
 * Blah Blah, Blubb
 * 

<cursor position>
 */

Is case 1 or 2 what you're doing?

[deg0nz]

Yeah, I was in doubt too, if this is a problem with the editor itself... Not with the extension.

I'm doing case 1 and no asterisk is added to the new line. Do you mean this could be a configuration in the editor?

[cschlosser]

Actually there's another way to do this (at least it worked for me on a clean VS Code install):

You need the C/C++ extension from Microsoft ms-vscode.cpptools.
If the extension is installed VS Code will add the asterisk.

[cschlosser]

Maybe I'll add this to the docs somewhere.

[amordo]

@

Actually there's another way to do this (at least it worked for me on a clean VS Code install):

You need the C/C++ extension from Microsoft ms-vscode.cpptools. If the extension is installed VS Code will add the asterisk.

Users could use another code-helper engine (eg. clangd) and often such extensions don't get along together.
It would be nice to exclude this dependency.