Ability to leave comments

[tipiirai]

I'd like to leave comments to the resulting CSS file. For example

/** 
      Comments starting with ** are preserved
*/

/*! 
  C-style comments starting with *! are preserved. Similar to YUI minifier.
*/

Allows me to put in a license or if I want the resulting CSS file to be editable comments are crucial.

Thanks for the amazing tool!

Tero

[cloudhead]

/* comment */ will be preserved
// comment will not be preserved

Cheers

[tipiirai]

thanks for clarifying. I'm talking about the compressed version. I believe it does not leave comments at all.

[cloudhead]

Maybe leaving header comments could make sense in the compressed version, but the point of the compressed version is to be as small as possible

[tipiirai]

yea. you are right. thanks again for the great tool

[tipiirai]

oh. and closing this one.

[ericrasch]

My need for keeping comments is due to using LESS with WordPress. WordPress Themes are initialized by the comment declaration at the top of the CSS (http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Stylesheet). It would help to have a way to preserve this specific comment, but still output the minified version... just like tipiirai pointed out. I'm able to do this in Sass with a /*! ... */.

[pdaoust]

Looking through the source, I see that the minifier now allows you to preserve comments by going /*! ... */, but it doesn't seem to be working. Am I reading the source wrong?

[pdaoust]

Oops, never mind -- looks like I have to pass { yuicompress: true } to the parser, because there are now two different options for minifiers. Perhaps this ought to be mentioned in the documentation somewhere?

[Glench]

As the person that added the yuicompress option, I'd really really like it to be in the documentation, but so far no luck in getting @cloudhead's attention.

[StreetStrider]

Is there any way to completely ignore /* ... */ commens as // ... by LESS options?

[lukeapage]

Output without compression 11then compress yourself.. ask cleancss for an
option to keep all comments...

[StreetStrider]

@lukeapage , hi.

compress yourself

Yes, I will. But I don't say anything about compression. I mean, I would like to use block comments in many ways as line comments and I don't need them in output at all.

[lukeapage]

Sorry I don't understand. Less does remove // comments and keeps /*
comments.. does that help?