Limit XML comment lines to 80 characters

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I would like ReSharper to limit XML comment lines to 80 columns when I run code cleanup.

For example, I would like the following line:

        /// <summary>Transform a dictionary into an HTTP entity by serializing it to JSON</summary>

To be reformatted to

        /// <summary>Transform a dictionary into an HTTP entity by serializing
        /// it to JSON</summary>

The following would also be acceptable:

        /// <summary>
        /// Transform a dictionary into an HTTP entity by serializing it to JSON
        /// </summary>

However, if the line is short, I do not want the tags to be on separate lines. The following line should not be broken up:

/// <param name="paramName">A short description</param>

Here are the relevant lines from my .DotSettings file:

    <s:String x:Key="/Default/CodeStyle/CodeFormatting/XmlDocFormatter/IndentTagContent/@EntryValue">ZeroIndent</s:String>
    <s:Boolean x:Key="/Default/CodeStyle/CodeFormatting/XmlDocFormatter/KeepUserLineBreaks/@EntryValue">False</s:Boolean>
    <s:Boolean x:Key="/Default/CodeStyle/CodeFormatting/XmlDocFormatter/TagSpaceBeforeHeaderEnd1/@EntryValue">False</s:Boolean>
    <s:Int64 x:Key="/Default/CodeStyle/CodeFormatting/XmlDocFormatter/WRAP_LIMIT/@EntryValue">80</s:Int64>

How can I achieve this?

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Hello Rmartin, thank you for your question. The settings seem to be correct. The only thing I would change is to make the WRAP_LIMIT (ReSharper | Options | Code Editing | XML Doc Comments | Formatting Style | Line wrapping | Hard wrap at) a little less so that the line that you gave as an example would be transferred to another line. Please let me know what you think.

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WRAP_LIMIT is set according to my employer's style guide so that lines exceeding 80 columns will be wrapped (though whether the WRAP_LIMIT is in columns or characters is unclear). The example I gave is 99 columns (93 characters including two leading tabs that are 4 columns wide). Clearly it line exceeds the WRAP_LIMIT, so why is it not wrapped?

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Rmartin, thanks for the reply. The characters inside the <summary> tag are counted. And there are less than 80.

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Thank you for your explanation. Is there no way to limit the entire line, including indentation and XML tags, to 80 columns, then?

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Rmartin, I'm afraid there is no such way. I found the following issue on our bug tracker that describes a similar case: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RSRP-414786. Please comment or vote for it to get notifications about status changes. Thank you!

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