Re: Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-18 Thread Johan™Strandberg
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 18:10, Rich Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This doesn't resonate with me, because I don't write comments. R. (p.s. :-)) (-: Or balance parenthesis... :-) --j --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Conley
I'll just chime in with my own personal prejudice and point out that I truly loath any style of comments that insists on putting something at the beginning of each line (*, //, whatever) of comment text. It's cluttered, makes it next to impossible to edit the text by hand, and requires extra

Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-17 Thread Marc Unangst
I generally format multi-line comments in my C source code like this: /* * This is the first line of the comment. * This is the second line. * This is the last line. */ In Emacs, fill-paragraph (M-q) will automatically find the comment boundaries and the prefix (* )

Re: Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-17 Thread Carlton Gibson
2008/9/17 Marc Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] I generally format multi-line comments in my C source code like this: /* * This is the first line of the comment. * This is the second line. * This is the last line. */ Is there a way to get equivalent behavior from BBEdit's

Re: Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-17 Thread Marc Unangst
On Sep 17, 11:19 am, Carlton Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a similar usage and what I do is to start the comment block, using a clipping. I then type my comment, without the *s. Hi Carlton, That sounds like it would work when you first write the comment, but what about revising a

Re: Wrapping C style comments

2008-09-17 Thread Rich Siegel
On 9/17/08 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Unangst) wrote: All this seems like a lot of effort for something that Emacs deals with automatically. (Hint hint, Bare Bones...) This doesn't resonate with me, because I don't write comments. R. (p.s. :-)) -- Rich Siegel