What's the point with these auto generated comments {TForm1}

[guest58172]

Please tell us the story.

I tend to delete them but they're generated again and again; I always wandered why and today I dare asking. 

[shobits1]

I think it is related to code auto completion generally not to TForm specifically, just tried an empty class with 1 procedure then Shif+Ctrl+C and the code auto completion and { tttt } (the name of the class).

[howardpc]

There's no need to delete the autogenerated comments. Change the setting so they are not generated.
The setting is found in the IDE Options dialog on the Class Completion page (under Codetools node). It has separate checkboxes for

•   Header comment for class
•   Implementation comment for class

[Thaddy]

As Howardpc wrote you can disable it, but I find it a useful means of navigating through code. It doesn't harm. It does not affect code.

[BeniBela]

Oh these were incredible annoying

After a while they start moving and end up at the wrong class

[guest58172]

There's no need to delete the autogenerated comments. Change the setting so they are not generated.
The setting is found in the IDE Options dialog on the Class Completion page (under Codetools node). It has separate checkboxes for

•   Header comment for class
•   Implementation comment for class

Thx, I couldn't stand them anymore.
BY the way they are probably the worst comments possible because they don't add any value:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. private
2.   {private declarations}
3. public
4.   {public declarations}
5.  

No kidding...

[howardpc]

Yes, there's no option I know of to suppress their autogeneration.
In fact they're hard-coded.
See ($LazarusDir)/components/ideintf/projectintf.pas around line 1025.
I think that's long overdue for a change.

[Graeme]

BY the way they are probably the worst comments possible because they don't add any value:

Indeed, they are totally useless and annoying. Hopefully one day we can toggle that behaviour ON or OFF.

[JuhaManninen]

Yes, the comments like:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1.   private
2.     {private declarations}
3.   public
4.     {public declarations}

bother also me a lot.
I remember removing such leftover comments from existing code because they look so redundant and useless. Every Pascal programmer knows that after keyword "private" come private declarations and after "public" come public declarations.
Following that logic similar comments should be added after other keywords like "begin" and "end", too.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. begin
2. {block begins}
3.   i:=0; j:=0;
4. end;
5. {block ends}

Clearly this is a historical remain from Delphi. Somebody added the auto-comments there at day one and then nobody thought of it.
Lazarus followed to be compatible...
I planning to do a bold move and remove such comment generation completely. If somebody really wants them configurable then I guess an option must be added. I am not very motivated to implement such an option because I have other useful things to do and there are too many options already anyway.
Patches for the option are welcome surely.

What do people think?

[howardpc]

The only possible value for those comments that I can see is for complete beginners to programming. Perhaps they could be left operational in the EducationLaz package (but perhaps that is a lot of work)?
Otherwise I think all others will breathe a sigh of relief, and express their thanks to BBasile for broaching the subject.

[Graeme]

@Juha:
I'm all for deleting such useless comments outright. Go right ahead!

[howardpc]

Why not implement a very simple file load system for Project > New > Application which simply loads a copy of a .pas/.pp file from the config directory (as I think Mattias introduced for customising indentation etc.)? There could be a hard-coded fall-back in case the file was missing or corrupted.
Then users could easily set their basic project 'skeleton' (with as many or as few comments as they wanted) without the need for further IDE options.

[JuhaManninen]

I removed the comments in r52832. They were in many places.
I wrote a note also in Lazarus mailing list (which was rejected, must find out why).

@howardpc, your idea is good but I don't have time nor motivation to implement it now. Patches are welcome.

[balazsszekely]

@Juha
I wrote a note also in Lazarus mailing list (which was rejected, must find out why).

My mails are blocked for more then a year now. When I contacted mailman-owner@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org I got the following response:

You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
been automatically rejected.  If you think that your messages are
being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at
mailman-owner@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org.

Which is kinda funny(contact me if necessary, but you will be blocked automatically anyway, so basically you cannot contact me) 

[hnb]

I removed the comments in r52832. They were in many places.

Very sad news for me. That is part of long tradition. Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.