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<p>Therefore it should be protected by a setting.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I wonder how to add such a setting in the GUI without confusing the user. The problem is that this feature depends both on "Automatic continuation of multi-line comments" and "Auto-indent". I can think of two variants. The first one is a dependent checkbox in "Completions" tab. Something like:</p>
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<p>The second is an option in "Various settings", but that still needs a meaningful variable name.</p>

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