Clojurians Log v2
cursive 2025-05-27
ok so who do I have to bribe to get an option to turn this automatic extension of comments completely off? you know press enter in a line with a comment and it starts a new line as a comment. something in the behavior has changed and I'm now stuck in permanent comment hell. maybe it was a Cursive update or IdeaVIM update, I can't really tell. LLMs are no help, they just imagine config options that don't exist. This is driving me crazy. I just want to write code, not comments all the time. I'm tempted to remove all comments just to stop this madness. I don't want to press enter, backspace, backspace all the time.
if u r using vim-style editing, wouldn't lower or upper-case O provide u a new, non-commented line?
it used to, no longer does
It’s not a “solution” but you can probably use down-arrow…
then I have down-arrow, enter, up-arrow. also bad.
As in, it’s not inserting a new line, but you get out of “comment” mode
Sure, yeah … I think I noticed this but it didn’t cause me too much trouble… perhaps I need to write more comments 😅
Sometimes once you’re in “comment” mode it can be nice to stay in comment mode, for a multi-line one…
I'd rather opt out of this and manually extend a comment. I know why this feature exists and it can be nice, right now its the most annoying thing ever
maybe it was the IdeaVIM or just IntelliJ update. I really can't tell
can't use vim o or O without going insane
I don’t think I use IdeaVIM, so possibly not that
There is one quite “hacky” way to go around this (that I can think of right now, at least), not sure how smooth sailing it would be but you can give it a try: recording an IntelliJ macro of a few steps… And then assigning that to the regular Enter key
my bet would be on IdeaVIM being the problem, since it's quite hacky
It’s always a bit sketchy but it can work for some cases
Not sure if it was easy to control the timing of that stuff, I don’t recall
Alternatively, if you’re on MacOS there’s this tool called BetterTouch tool that allows you do pretty custom stuff with keyboard output (outside of IntelliJ)… I bet Linux has something similar; Windows no idea
thats taking things a little far
hah, yeah… just brainstorming out all the options
I don’t recall what I was doing there but it’s possible 😅
It’s gotta be peek annoyance to get there; typically not much value
lets see if an LLM can find a relevant change in the IdeaVIM github commits 😛
again, I don’t think I have IdeaVIM - is that a standard part of Idea?
I'm mostly annoyed by o and O not working as they used to. enter extending the comment is fine most of the time
ah, I see… I don’t know about those specifically
i would try to downgrade ideavim manually to some earlier version from this page: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim/versions because it's easier and faster to do, then downgrading intellij itself.
hmm but now do I select which version to install?
ah nvm tells you when you click download
hmm can't go back too far or it fails because of some intellj api breakage I guess ... I swear I'm never changing my editor versions again ...
Colin says he's going to fix it: https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C0744GXCJ/p1747779609241639?thread_ts=1747732555.111999&cid=C0744GXCJ
oh wow. nice find thx.
too quick to blame ideavim I guess. just tried in .java and it actually works as expected