diff --git a/firmware/tunerstudio/rusefi.input b/firmware/tunerstudio/rusefi.input
index a4f3762835..f9b4e238e2 100644
--- a/firmware/tunerstudio/rusefi.input
+++ b/firmware/tunerstudio/rusefi.input
@@ -3816,4 +3816,3 @@ cmd_set_engine_type_default					= "@@TS_IO_TEST_COMMAND_char@@\x00\x31\x00\x00"
 #else
  addTool = afrTableGenerator, "AFR Table Generator", afrTableTbl
 #endif
-
diff --git a/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar b/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar
index 046c7d2600..db9ec00614 100644
Binary files a/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar and b/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar differ
diff --git a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/ConfigField.java b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/ConfigField.java
index bfa3abb4e7..8879f62a4b 100644
--- a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/ConfigField.java
+++ b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/ConfigField.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ public class ConfigField {
 
     private static final Pattern DIRECTIVE = Pattern.compile("#(if\\s" + namePattern + "|else|elif\\s\" + namePattern + \"|endif)");
 
+    // we used to have a weird feature of only handing comments starting with + as tooltips
+    // very unclear what was the value of it. todo; remove all of those and kill this tag?
     public static final char TS_COMMENT_TAG = '+';
     public static final String VOID_NAME = "";
     public static final String BOOLEAN_T = "boolean";
diff --git a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/output/TSProjectConsumer.java b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/output/TSProjectConsumer.java
index 1501ac8059..dfdc8b93ac 100644
--- a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/output/TSProjectConsumer.java
+++ b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/main/java/com/rusefi/output/TSProjectConsumer.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public class TSProjectConsumer implements ConfigurationConsumer {
             return tsPosition;
         }
 
-        if (configField.getComment() != null && configField.getComment().startsWith(ConfigField.TS_COMMENT_TAG + "")) {
+        if (configField.getComment() != null && configField.getComment().trim().length() > 0) {
             settingContextHelp.append("\t" + nameWithPrefix + " = \"" + configField.getCommentContent() + "\"" + EOL);
         }
         state.variableRegistry.register(nameWithPrefix + "_offset", tsPosition);