Ignore comments option for indent rule

What rule do you want to change?

indent

Does this change cause the rule to produce more or fewer warnings?

Potentially fewer warnings

How will the change be implemented? (New option, new default behavior, etc.)?

New option:

{
    "indent": ["error", 4, { "comments": "off" }]
}

This option will completely disregard lines beginning with comments and allow them to be at any indentation level.

Please provide some example code that this change will affect:

doSomething();  // This comment is fine
                           // This comment is reported, but shouldn't be

if (foo) {
    doBar();

// This comment is reported, but shouldn't be with new option
// (maybe comment should be easy to spot via outdenting?)
    doBaz();
}

What does the rule currently do for this code?

Reports all comments (except trailing comment on first line)

What will the rule do after it’s changed?

Reports none of the comments

[platinumazure]

@gyandeeps What you say makes sense. For what it’s worth, though, it could also be seen as a backward-compatibility enhancement for users that used to rely on indent ignoring comments.

[mcdoh]

I use tabs and start my comments at column 0. This way I can comment out blocks of code without affecting the horizontal placement of the commented code (i.e. indenting with spaces would indent the commented code by two spaces). Personally I find this very readable and useful. The current eslint rules complain about my indent level and I have no way to turn that off short of changing my code style.

Ignoring indent levels on comments is exactly what I’m looking for.