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Sublime text 3 adding a white space in the commented line

#1

How do i remove the space when creating comments, when i coment or uncomment this line

// console.log('Lorem Ipsum');

I get additional white space in the beginning.

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#2

This is determined from the syntax definition. Specifically the Comments.tmPreferences.

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#3

Hi,

i have tried this and put it in my ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/JavaScript folder but it didn’t work.

i have set <string>// </string> to <string>//</string>

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#4

It works when I do it here; are you seeing anything in the console that indicates an error? What does the content of your Comments.tmPreferences file look like?

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#5

Here’s the XML I created. btw I created the folder JavaScript as my sublime doesn’t have it in Library. I don’t get any errors in the console also.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Comments</string>
    <key>scope</key>
    <string>source.js</string>
    <key>settings</key>
    <dict>
        <key>shellVariables</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>TM_COMMENT_START</string>
                <key>value</key>
                <string>//</string>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>TM_COMMENT_START_2</string>
                <key>value</key>
                <string>/*</string>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>TM_COMMENT_END_2</string>
                <key>value</key>
                <string>*/</string>
            </dict>
        </array>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>
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#6

While you’re editing one of the files where you want this to work, choose Tools > Developer > Show Scope Name; this makes a popup appear that shows you the full scope of the text at the cursor. Is the first like source.js or something different?

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#7

Yes it shows source.js are their any other folders sublime checks the files?

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#8

As long as the file is inside of a package, Sublime will find it and load it. You can tell if Sublime is noticing your file by intentionally breaking the XML in it and then saving the file; you should get an error message.

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#9

yes it does break. when i try to delete one of the < character it gives me this

error loading meta info from Packages/JavaScript/Comments.tmPreferences: Error parsing plist xml: expected > in file Packages/JavaScript/Comments.tmPreferences on line: 12

but when I try to change the <string>//</string> it doesn’t take effect. even if try to do this <string>test</string>. Although when i save it i need to press cmd + / a few times before it will take effect.

Would there be any Packages installation that would interfere with this file?

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#10

It’s possible that another package you have installed could include a similar file (using the same scope, specifically); if that was the case then it would load after this package and potentially cause issues.

You could test that by putting this file in your User package instead; that package is always loaded last and “wins” all disputes that involve similar things being provided by multiple packages.

This is the more worrying part of this; the change to the file should either work or not work, it shouldn’t sometimes work.

Something to try would be to open the Sublime console with View > Show Console and then enter sublime.log_commands(True) and press the key combination for commenting a file (in the same place where you see this issue) and double check that it’s executing the command toggle_comment with an argument of { "block": false}; if it says something else, then a package is stealing the key binding (perhaps in only specific situations).

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#11

thank you very much!!! i did the sublime.log_commands(True) and found this

command: naomi_toggle_jsx_comment {"block": false}

uninstalled naomi(i don’t use it anyway) and everything works perfectly!

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