The title sounds hideous but bear with me... When I type: /** and then hit enter. It would be great if the next '*' would automatically appear on clicking enter: /** * <- space here for formatting. Then if I clicked enter again, I'd get: /** * <- space here for formatting. * <- space here for formatting. When I add the final */ this auto-formatting ends; /** * <- space here for formatting. * <- space here for formatting. */ [Note that the string "<- space here for formatting." is just to let you know that a space comes after the *'s each time. It would be blank in practise... I hoped that was obvious ;)] It makes it really nice when writing JavaDoc / Doxygen / PHPDoc type comments. Of course as ever this should be an option, as it will annoy some people... we all have different tastes after all Thanks