Comment has no leading space

Reports comments without a leading space.

Note that the inspection works only if you select the Add a leading space to comments in Editor | Code Style | Go on the Other tab.

Comments with a leading space can be easier to read since the first word is separated from the comment by a space.

Example:

//Prints JSON received from the createJSON function
func printJSON(output []byte) {
	fmt.Println(string(output))
}

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoCommentLeadingSpace

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Code style issues

Inspection ID: GoCommentLeadingSpace

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoCommentLeadingSpace

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025