How do I stop Visual Studio 2019 from automatically inserting asterisk during a block comment in C++?

Question

When using Visual Studio 2019, when I hit enter within a block comment in a C++ file it adds a leading * . I've found a solution to this problem for C# at How do I stop Visual Studio from automatically inserting asterisk during a block comment? but the same option is not present for C++ and changing the C# option doesn't disable the feature for C++. This does not occur with Visual Studio 2017.

So when I have:

/*<cursor here>
*/

and I hit enter I want it to look like:

/*
<cursor here>
*/

but instead I get

/*
* <cursor here>
*/

Is there an option somewhere that disables this behavior or another way to do so?

Answer 1

• In VS2019, click menu Tools\Options
• In the search field up to the left, type comment style
• In the tree view that appears under the search field, you should see a few nodes, Select the bottom node in the Text Editor / C/C++ tree (currently named General ).
• To the right, you'll have a checkbox:
  [x] Insert existing comment style at the start of new lines when writing comments . Uncheck that.

Done.

Answer 2

According to the link: https://developercommunity2.visualstudio.com/t/disable-new-extend-multiline-comments-in/1185751

It seems an issue, and the issue was fixed in 16.8. I suggest you could install the most recent release from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ . Or you could update your Visual studio.