No line break before comment after else in Eclipse

Question

I've long been a "align curly braces" person. And with wide monitors I put long comments after code. So in Eclipse I want to do format things like this:

if(foo)
{
  something();
}
else
{
  somethingElse();
}

Fine; that's easy. But then I add a comment:

if(foo)  //if foo is true
{
  something();
}
else  //if no foo
{
  somethingElse();
}

Dratted Eclipse formats it like this:

if(foo)  //if foo is true
{
  something();
}
else
//if no foo
{
  somethingElse();
}

Great. That whole wasted line. And it looks ugly. And it's not even precise, because I want to comment the else line.

How can I get Eclipse to format my if/else with aligned braces, but allow my comments to be on the same line as else?

This was tested on Eclipse 4.2.2, and I have just confirmed that it does not work in Eclipse 4.3M7, either.

I have filed a bug on the issue; let's see what the Eclipse developers have to say.

Answer 1

1. Go to preferences
2. Type "format" in the searchbox
3. Select "Java->Code style->Formatter" in the tree
4. Click the "Edit..." button
5. Go to the "Comments" tab
6. Select "preserve whitespace between code and line comments"

That did it for me in Galileo.

Answer 2

I'm using Eclipse Indigo (3.7), all I had to do was go to Control Statements -> check "insert newline before 'else' in an 'if' statement". (inside Properties/Java Code Style/Formatter/Edit...)

I'm using a copy of the default Eclipse built-in template. If you're sure you haven't tampered with the built-in template, please let us know what version you're using.