/* */ comment on a single line inside braces keeps trying to un-indent

[jbt]

If I have a /* comment */ on a single line, Atom automatically un-indents the line immediately when I type the closing */ and after various edits elsewhere on the line.

(the re-indentation in that gif is me hitting ctrl+] to fix it)

It only seems to occur if the comment is inside some manner of braces or parentheses, for example:

• /* foo */ (comment only thing on the line) perfectly fine
• foo /* bar */ also fine
• if( /* foo */ is fine but as soon as I type the closing ) it outdents (and then again for subsequent additions to the line), or if the ) was already there thanks to auto-insertion of closing brackets

I think this may be specific to JavaScript syntax, so apologies if the issue should be on language-javascript instead.

Happens in atom built straight off master, but has been happening for a while now, definitely at least since 0.120 or so. Also happens with --safe so it isn't a package issue.

[lee-dohm]

Can you reproduce this issue in another C-like language syntax? Like Java or C?

[jbt]

Nope, doesn't look like it. It does appear to be JS-specific

[thomasjo]

I've successfully reproduced this by doing exactly what @jbt is doing in the provided GIF. Trying to debug.

[thomasjo]

Reproduced this with C as well;

void main() {
  if (TRUE) { /* I cause issues... */}
}

As soon as the comment is closed, the line loses one level of indentation. Wondering if this is an issue with bracket-matcher? If I insert a newline after { and before } (in both JS and C), the comment does not affect the indentation.

[kevinsawicki]

Thanks for reporting this @jbt and thanks @thomasjo for reporting it broken in C as well.

I've fixed it in both the language-c and language-javascript packages and the updated versions will be in the next Atom release, 0.142

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