Space before aligned // (double slash)

[ghost]

Despite of configuring alignment_space_chars, when aligning with // (double slash), the outcome's longest line has no space before it. While other characters just work fine.

This block of code,

sample(
  $shrt, // comment
  $longer, // comment
  $longest // comment
)

ends up like this.

sample(
  $shrt,    // comment
  $longer,  // comment
  $longesttt// comment <--- notice that there's no space before
)

[xcskier56]

I've also run across this. I've got an interesting use case where I'm trying to align the model definitions in ember-data. So to do this I've add "DS." to alignment_chars and alignment_space_chars. It works as expected except for the missing space as seen above.

My user settings file

{
  "align_indent": true,
  "mid_line_tabs": false,   
  "alignment_chars": ["=", "DS."],
  "alignment_space_chars": ["=", "DS."],
  "alignment_prefix_chars": [
    "+", "-", "&", "|", "<", ">", "!", "~", "%", "/", "*", "."
  ]
}

This

# coffeescript
User = DS.Model.extend
  avatar: DS.attr('string')
  email: DS.attr('string')
  firstName: DS.attr('string')

Turns into

# coffeescript
User = DS.Model.extend
  avatar:   DS.attr('string')
  email:    DS.attr('string')
  firstName:DS.attr('string') # Missing space before 'DS.'

[njgwinter]

This bug bites for any entry in alignment_space_characters that is more than one character long. I tracked down the problem and created a fix; the problem is in the code that checks against the alignment_space_characters entries only compares each against a single character. Unfortunately I haven't yet mastered Github (don't hate me!), so I can't make a pull request.

The offending code is these two lines in Alignment.py

# if view.substr(matching_char_pt) in alignment_space_chars:
#     space_pt += 1

I've replaced them with the following, and now it works as expected

# adds space if alignment char is in alignment_space_chars
# original code fails for multi-character entries in alignment_space_chars
# if view.substr(matching_char_pt) in alignment_space_chars:
#     space_pt += 1
for asc in alignment_space_chars:
    # check if correct-length substr matches current alignment_space_chars entry
    if (view.substr(sublime.Region(matching_char_pt,matching_char_pt+len(asc)))) in alignment_space_chars:
        space_pt += 1
        break