Use ! ? as tags only if followed by white space

[khanybaba]

In JS the ! is the logical not operator it is not uncommon to find a ternary statement of the form !variable ? execute_this : execute_that when commenting such a line of code Better Comments takes the initial exclamation mark to be a tag requiring (or providing an optional setting that will require) a tag to be followed by whitespace will prevent these commented lines from being incorrectly tagged

[porg]

Your desired customization is already possible now

1. Open Settings (⌘ , on a Mac)
2. Search for "Better Comments". Click on: Extensions → Better Comments.
3. Tags: [Edit in settings.json]() 👉 Click that link to open the settings file
   • Find the array "better-comments.tags": (currently on line 31)
   • Find "tag": "!", (currently on line 35) and change it to "tag": "! ", (space character after the exclamation mark)
4. Restart VSCode.

✅ From now on that style is only applied to comment lines starting with !.

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• Note I'm not the maintainer, just a fellow user who stumbled across your issue and volunteered with info.
• Hope it helped.

[khanybaba]

Thank you. Much appreciated!