Comment left align

Jürgen Nießen

Is there a setting , so that the comment is like

      code 
//    code

instead of

       code
       // code

?

PeterJones

@Jürgen-Nießen ,

Sorry, auto-indent keeps comments at the same level of indentation as the code block the comment is a part of (because the auto-indentation is a feature coded at the editor level, whereas the marking of “comment” is coded at the lexer/syntax-highlighter level).

That said, alternatives include:

running code through an external “pretty print” utility – @Michael-Vincent gives examples of how to do that ~~in an old post~~ <edit>: in this old post (which was linked from the other; sorry.)</edit>
using one of the scripting plugins (like PythonScript) to set up a hook to watch what you type, and if you type the comment indicator on a line that has only whitespace before that indicator, the script could un-indent for you. Similar things have been done recently, and if you need help, we could dig up links to those previous discussions, and/or someone might be willing to ~~hack up a script~~ engineer a solution for you, if it catches their fancy