DocBlockr for Nova

Nova extension to make writing documentation easier.

DocBlockr helps you add documentation comments to your source code. Just type /** in the editor and select the completion suggestion.

If the line directly afterwards contains a function definition or variable declaration, some documentation is automatically added with placeholders you can tab through. DocBlockr will try to make an intelligent guess about the return value of a function.

To (re-)format a comment block select it (or just place the cursor inside) and select Editor → DocBlockr → Format DocBlock.

DocBlockr for Nova currently supports
* C/C++, LSL
* Java
* JavaScript/JSX
* ObjC/ObjC++
* PHP
* Ruby (experimental)
* Rust
* Swift (experimental)
* TypeScript/TSX

You can read more about documentation comments here: JSDoc and phpDocumentor.

Header blocks

DocBlockr may additionally provide a header comment, if the cursor is at the top of your source file. Header comments start with the file and workspace name. You may add more tags globally or per workspace in the extension settings, e.g.:

• pre-filled tags: e.g. @copyright year name
• tags only: e.g. @author (in which case DocBlockr adds the missing placeholders according to the specification for that tag)
• free-form text

Each of these also accept tabbable ${placeholders} and Nova variables, e.g.
@copyright ${year} $AUTHOR_NAME

Note

This started as a port of DocBlockr for Atom by Nikhil Kalige, which is a port of DocBlockr for Sublime Text by Nick Fisher. By now large parts of the original code were refactored and I basically kept the RegExp only. More or less.

Special Thanks

Portuguese translation by Gwyneth Llewelyn

Version 0.9.4

• Fixed an issue where DocBlockr did not provide useful completions

Version 0.9.3

• Bugfix: Provide header block if editor is empty

Version 0.9.2

• Bugfix: Menu command Insert DocBlock and Format DocBlock should work again (has nobody noticed this was broken?).
• Updated README to better illustrate how additional tags for header comments work.
• New feature: Bookmark comments

Version 0.9.1

• Bugfix: Add newline extension for rust header doc comments (#17, by nlydv).

Version 0.9.0

• Note: DocBlockr is now using language specific trigger chars, i.e.
• /** for Java/Javascript/PHP/etc.
• /** or /*! for C languages (depending on selected comment style)
• /// for Rust/Swift
• ## for Ruby
• Added support for Swift (experimental)
• Added support for Ruby (experimental)
• Some Rust comment enhancements (following rust-lang RFC 1574)
• Extension settings: Fixed a bug which prevented free-form text to be added to header comment blocks. Also, made the tab index for placeholders optional: ${placeholder} and ${0:placeholder} now both work.
• More bugfixes

Version 0.8.0

• Added support for Java, ObjC/ObjC++ and Rust. There may be issues!
• v0.6.1 introduced new bugs, so I reviewed the whole code and found even more bugs and weird stuff some of which I for the life of me can't remember why I did.
• Additionally Nova’s indentation logic breaks DocBlockr in many cases, so I have also rewritten that part. Hoping this won’t introduce new bugs.

Version 0.7.0

• C/C++ support
• Portuguese translation by Gwyneth Llewelyn
• German language additions (Gwyneth Llewelyn)

Version 0.6.1

• Bugfix

Version 0.6

• Added basic support for JSX/TSX files.
  Enabling JavaScript also enables it for JSX. Same for TypeScript/TSX.

Version 0.5

• Comment extension (experimental feature)
  Pressing return inside a docblock will try to insert a leading asterisk and maintain indentation. This is very hacky code, which constantly tracks cursor position and docblock contents. This may slow down your editor, which is why this is an experimental feature and disabled by default. Can be enabled in global settings.
• minor fixes

Version 0.4

• Custom tags for header blocks (global and per workspace)
• bug fixes

Version 0.3

• Better handling of different line endings
• Completions now also provide a header block as first comment in a document
  Additional/default fields for this will be added in v0.4
• Added menu command to add docblocks
• Added menu command to (re-)format docblocks
  Wrap width is currently hard-coded to 80 characters
• more code cleanup

Version 0.2

• Tag completions (@...)
• Reworked preferences handling
• Catching false positives
  Statements which look like functions to DocBlockr (if, for, switch, while)
• some code cleanup

Version 0.1

First halfway decent working version

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Hendrik Meinl

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