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Bug 97767

Summary:	Support word-wrap inside Javadoc documentation
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	BenH <ben_hutchison>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, digulla
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description BenH

2005-05-31 20:31:20 EDT

It would be really conveinient if the Java editor could automatically wrap text 
inside Javadoc comments at a set line length, when its entered, as happens in 
eg a word processor.

When writing (or modifying existing) long documentation blocks, manually 
handling word wrap is quite time consuming. Espcially if, eg a line length get 
changes, and all lines following that need to be corrected.

Comment 1 Frederic Fusier

2005-06-01 03:18:14 EDT

Move to JDT/UI

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2005-06-01 05:24:55 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35779 ***

Comment 3 Aaron Digulla

2009-02-06 03:31:36 EST

This is not a duplicate of bug 35779. Ben asks for a way to enable "Format Source on every keypress" while inside of a Javadoc comment (and limiting the formatter to said comment).

Bug 35779 asks for soft wrap.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2009-02-06 03:35:21 EST

In that case you can use save actions which will format the Javadoc (and the source) on save.

Comment 5 Aaron Digulla

2009-02-06 06:41:01 EST

Eclipse is so popular because of the immediate visual feedback which you put so much effort in. Why not here, too?

I mean, he could just press Ctrl-Shift-F repeatedly ... only that would also reformat the rest of the code and I, for one, wouldn't want that. The Eclipse formatter is pretty good but not half as good as I am at making code readable :)