Hi,

I assume that there are more valuable things to discuss than the
formatting, auto-formatting, and auto-formatability of comments.
Perfectionism and engineering are probably better spent in other
places.

If you encounter a comment or text with manual line breaks and are
deterred by the gaps introduced by automatic line wrapping, you can
always enlarge the text view (temporarily) so that the line breaks
fit, can't you?

Kind regards,
Jakob

Am Sa., 2. Apr. 2022 um 13:56 Uhr schrieb
<christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> > Yes please. If someone wants to format comments differently, then pretty print it any way you like. Shout might be good for doing that.
>
> +1. I'd just argue that inserting linebreaks via pretty print is significantly easier than removing them.
>
> > It just does not have a readable shape.
>
> So would you be fine some kind of MaximumCompositionWidthAttribute that your Shout could apply to any comment in the source code? :-)
>
> > When possible, we should allow all styles.
>
> Yes, ping-pong commits are bad, but inconsistency isn't beautiful, either. I think we still are missing a proper pretty-printer that fits everyone's individual needs and can release us from debates like this one. :D
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
> PS: Please find another very typical argument against pre-formatted text with manual linebreaks in the attachment. It's really annoying to me. :-)
>
> ---
> Sent from Squeak Inbox Talk
>
> On 2022-04-02T11:34:36+02:00, lecteur at zogotounga.net wrote:
>
> > > There are a lot of things that might be done to improve the
> > > quality and quantity of comments in Squeak. Messing around with
> > > line break characters in other people's comments is not one of
> > > those things. Please just don't.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Comments in Squeak are wonderfully simple: just write whatever you want
> > wherever you want. Comment out whatever chunk of code, anywhere, easily.
> > Prepare code in comment to be used only within a debugger - there are
> > many ways to play with the comments syntax. Please do not take this
> > simplicity and the freedom it allows away from us, and remember that no
> > two coders have the same pratices and preferences. When possible, we
> > should allow all styles.
> >
> > Stef
> >
> >
> ["manualLinebreaks.png"]