If you have a line comment in front of an annotati...

# ktlint

[Vampire]

If you have a line comment in front of an annotation that describes the annotation like

// work-around for <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-38871>
// Kotlin 1.9+ and thus Gradle 8.3+ fixed it and no suppression is necessary anymore
@Suppress("UNUSED_VARIABLE")
val foo by gradle.extra {
    true
}

is it expected that ktlint adds a blank line between the comment and the annotation?
Or can this be configured?
Or would this warrant a bug report?

[jw]

I use (attempting this on mobile slack so no promises...)

@Suppress(
  // Explain
  "The thing",
)

Which lets me do multiple without changing the format or breaking the blame

[Vampire]

Thanks, I'm aware of that work-around.
Just want to know whether reporting it as issues would make sense or whether it would be closed anyway due to reasons like the other one I submitted. 🙂

[Vampire]

At least I also don't see any rule in the official conventions that mandates a blank line before annotations.

[wakingrufus]

maybe because it is not a multiline comment

/* */

style

[Vampire]

No, same for multi-line comment

[Sha Sha Chu]

it may be a bug due to this rule: https://pinterest.github.io/ktlint/latest/rules/standard/#annotation-formatting

[Paul Dingemans]

I see no reason that an EOL comment cannot proceed an annotation without a blank line. Can you file a bug for it?

[Vampire]

Definitely, just wanted to avoid another right-away closed one. :-)

[Vampire]

https://github.com/pinterest/ktlint/issues/2416