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[antoyo]

Hi.

Describe your feature request

I'd like a feature like vim's setting formatoptions=ro, that is something that will continue a comment when you press Enter in insert mode or open a new line inside a comment.

Thanks!

[seanchen1991]

This is a feature that I'm quite sorely missing. I'd love to see it get merged soon!

[antoyo]

I'll see if I can cleanup this PR in January. I've been quite busy lately.

[icefoxen]

Not the same, but related: using J to join lines in comments leaves the stray comment markers in the line. So if I have:

// foo
// bar

and I hit J in normal mode I get:

// foo// bar

Interestingly, :reflow handles both cases correctly.

[dist1ll]

A note regarding the implementation: vim also carries over the preceding whitespace of the current comment line.

/* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do 
 * eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
 *
 *       push   %rax
 *       jmpq   *%rax▎
 *       ▎           ^ 
 */      ^       if you press enter here
       cursor
     lands here 

This is very useful when writing comments with varying levels of indentation.