Comment Positioning

When you use the Auto Format (Ctrl-T or File --> Auto Format) with Release 2.10, the IDE moves any comment on that line a few lines past the statement termination character (semi-colon). Previous IDEs left that spacing unchanged.

I would like to know if there is a way to turn off the code that changes the comment spacing.

The Autoformat options are controlled by a clag-format file

See Clang setup; where is .clang-format

For what it is worth here is my customised file

# documentation on clang-format in general
# https://releases.llvm.org/14.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html

#default Arduino 2.0 format originally from
#https://docs.arduino.cc/software/ide-v2/tutorials/ide-v2-customize-auto-formatter
---
Language: Cpp
# LLVM is the default style setting, used when a configuration option is not set here
BasedOnStyle: LLVM
AccessModifierOffset: -2
AlignAfterOpenBracket: Align
AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
AlignConsecutiveBitFields: false
AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
AlignConsecutiveMacros: false
AlignEscapedNewlines: DontAlign
AlignOperands: Align
AlignTrailingComments: true
AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: true
AllowAllConstructorInitializersOnNextLine: true
AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: Always
AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: true
AllowShortEnumsOnASingleLine: true
AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty
AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: Always
AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: Empty
AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: true
AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: No
BinPackArguments: true
BinPackParameters: true
# Only used when "BreakBeforeBraces" set to "Custom"
BraceWrapping:
  AfterCaseLabel: false
  AfterClass: false
  AfterControlStatement: Never
  AfterEnum: false
  AfterFunction: true
  AfterNamespace: false
  #AfterObjCDeclaration:
  AfterStruct: false
  AfterUnion: false
  AfterExternBlock: false
  BeforeCatch: false
  BeforeElse: false
  BeforeLambdaBody: false
  BeforeWhile: false
  IndentBraces: false
  SplitEmptyFunction: false
  SplitEmptyRecord: false
  SplitEmptyNamespace: false
# Java-specific
#BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations:
BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: NonAssignment


# bbb BreakBeforeBraces: Attach
BreakBeforeBraces: Allman


BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeColon
BreakInheritanceList: BeforeColon
BreakStringLiterals: false
ColumnLimit: 0
# "" matches none
CommentPragmas: ""
CompactNamespaces: false
ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 2
ContinuationIndentWidth: 2

Cpp11BracedListStyle: false

DeriveLineEnding: true
DerivePointerAlignment: true
DisableFormat: false
# Docs say "Do not use this in config files". The default (LLVM 11.0.1) is "false".
#ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking:
FixNamespaceComments: false
ForEachMacros: []
IncludeBlocks: Preserve
IncludeCategories: []
# "" matches none
IncludeIsMainRegex: ""
IncludeIsMainSourceRegex: ""
IndentCaseBlocks: true
IndentCaseLabels: true
IndentExternBlock: Indent
IndentGotoLabels: false
IndentPPDirectives: None

#bbb IndentWidth: 2
IndentWidth: 4

IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
InsertTrailingCommas: None
# Java-specific
#JavaImportGroups:
# JavaScript-specific
#JavaScriptQuotes:
#JavaScriptWrapImports

# bbb KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false

MacroBlockBegin: ""
MacroBlockEnd: ""

# Set to a large number to effectively disable
# bbb MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 10000000
MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1

NamespaceIndentation: None
NamespaceMacros: []
# Objective C-specific
#ObjCBinPackProtocolList:
#ObjCBlockIndentWidth:
#ObjCBreakBeforeNestedBlockParam:
#ObjCSpaceAfterProperty:
#ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList
PenaltyBreakAssignment: 1
PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 1
PenaltyBreakComment: 1
PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 1
PenaltyBreakString: 1
PenaltyBreakTemplateDeclaration: 1
PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1
PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 1
# Used as a fallback if alignment style can't be detected from code (DerivePointerAlignment: true)
PointerAlignment: Right
RawStringFormats: []
ReflowComments: false
SortIncludes: false
SortUsingDeclarations: false
SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
SpaceAfterLogicalNot: false
SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: false
SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: false
SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: true
SpaceBeforeSquareBrackets: false
SpaceInEmptyBlock: false
SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 2
SpacesInAngles: false
SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
SpacesInConditionalStatement: false
SpacesInContainerLiterals: false
SpacesInParentheses: false
SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
Standard: Auto
StatementMacros: []

#bbb TabWidth: 2		# see IndentWidth
TabWidth: 4

TypenameMacros: []
# Default to LF if line endings can't be detected from the content (DeriveLineEnding).
UseCRLF: false
UseTab: Never
WhitespaceSensitiveMacros: []

Note the links at the start of the file if you want more details

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