Comments in @import-ed files are being inappropriately suppressed

[vitormil]

In @imported .styl files, all block comments are being suppressed in the output.

There's a closed issue for that https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus/issues/444 from 2 years ago but It's still not working.

I've created a repo to show this scenario:
https://github.com/vitormil/stylus-comment-bug

[Panya]

This is done on purpose. As said in #935:

In order to prevent comments from existing plugins and libraries (like Nib) from being compiled, suppressed comments (without '!') are ignored.

[dpanov]

Guys, this is really causing problems when a documentation like Kalei (http://kaleistyleguide.com/) is used. It uses comments in order to generate a style documentation. In my case, I use Grunt to generate two files. One of the files is compressed and doesn't have comments - this is the file that gets loaded on the website. The second CSS file is not compressed and it has comments. The style guide reads the uncompressed file and builds a documentation from it.

It's not acceptable to use suppressed comments, because they will appear in the compressed file as well.

[riemerio]

Is there a working solution without explicitly mark comments like /*! */ ?
Like @dpanov I am working with the sc5 styleguide where I urgently need comments from imported/required .styl files for my styleguide documentation.

The problem with /*! */ is that the stylus compiler can't remove them in further build tasks for production. So I need another CSS minifier to remove the persisted comments.

I would suggest an additional build flag to remove persisted comments /*! */ as well if it is needed.

[codyroot]

I agree on Markus suggestion.

[bruvvn]

+1