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Visual Studio Code – VSCode inserts space after comment sequence

Whenever VSCode formats code, for almost all languages, it will insert spaces after the comment escape sequence (//, #, et cetera).

Although this does not work for C code, I assume that this might be some kind of global setting.
Is it possible to disable the insertion of this extra space somewhere? I follow a style where I don’t use the extra spaces after "code-only" comments.

Any (lightweight) extensions that do this (or similar)? Should I make my own…?

I’d like for this solution to work for all languages, although Java is what I use the most.

I tried searching for some extensions related to comments, but it seems that there are none doing this. Is a linter what I need..?

Sorry and thank you in advance!

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    It seems that setting java.format.comments.enabled to false was somewhat helpful: java.format.comments.enabled setting in VSCode

    However, it disables formatting for all comments, even JavaDoc ones.


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    VS Code doesn’t have a default formatter that works across every language so, there is no global solution for you. You will have to check, for every language you noticed such behavior, if the formatter is built in or not, and look for settings individually.

    You commented about using Java, and VS Code Java support doesn’t provides a formatter, so I suppose you have some Java extension installed, maybe from RedHat. If that’s the case, I’ve noticed (based on extension’s Readme) that It has a Java: Open Java Formatter Settings command, which says opens the Eclipse formatter settings. Creates a new settings file if none exists. It’s been a long time I don’t use Eclipse, so I’m not sure how its settings works, and if it does support the format rule you want. But I suggest you to take a look.

    Hope this helps

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    There is a setting that should affect all languages:

    Editor > Comments: Insert Space

    It is enabled by default, uncheck it.

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