Thank You very much, You have saved the world for me :) You have a typo in Your answer:
:setlocal comments=sr:/**,mb:*,ex:* should have a '/' at the end, than it work very well. A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > astropanic wrote: >> HI, >> I run Vim6.3 on Debian Sarge 3.1 from the testing packages. How I can set >> it >> up to autocomment lines ? Example: >> >> /** - this line is written by me, on every newline character entered from >> the keyboard ... >> * >> * - vim should draw a asterisk on the screen and let me continue write >> the >> commented block >> * >> */ - until I write this sequence, then >> Vim should exit from the comment block and don,t more write asterisk on >> the >> newline >> >> This Vim version is compiled with the '+comments' flag. >> I have tried the :set comments=sr/**,m:*,elx:*/ , but with no results. >> I often use PHP and PHPDocumentor, and a really need this thing. >> >> On the Slackware 11 distro with Vim7 this works fine for me. >> Can anybody help ? >> Thanks > > :setlocal comments=sr/**,m:*,elx:* > E539: Illegal character </> > > :setlocal comments=sr:/**,m:*,elx:* > no error but doesn't work > :setlocal fo+=cr > inserting middle part now works (right-aligned with comment start). Typing > just / removes the space before it but Vim still inserts a * on next line. > > :setlocal comments=sr:/**,mb:*,ex:* > " with 'formatoptions' including cr > works: > > /** line 1 <-- all hand-typed > * line 2 <-- hand-typed starting with l > * line 3 <-- ditto > */ <-- only / hand-typed, no need to backspace > <-- Vim doesn't auto-insert anything here > > > I'm using gvim 7.0.188 with GTK2/Gnome GUI on SuSE Linux 9.3. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autocomment-lines-tf3063105.html#a8520374 Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
