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bug#50840: 28.0.50; Support GNU style of multiline comments in C source
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50840: 28.0.50; Support GNU style of multiline comments in C source code |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:50:11 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 50840@debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:42:32 -0400
>
> > It sounds like none of the comment styles in 'comment-styles' can
> > produce the style of C code comments that we use in Emacs, i.e.
> >
> > /* This is the first line of a multi-line comment.
> > This is the final line of a multi-line comment. */
> >
> > And I don't see anything in the CC Mode manual to augment that,
> > either.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what that would mean in practice.
> `comment-style` is used to comment out code rather than to write the
> text of a comment. I think what you're asking for is what you get by
> setting `comment-multi-line` and then writing your text (e.g. starting
> with M-; and then typing the text in there, maybe with auto-fill set).
The actual use case is to convert a block of comments like this:
// First line
// continuation line with more text,
// more text. And another sentence
// which continues here.
to our comment style. I thought it was easy: first uncomment the
region, then comment the region using the proper style. But there's
no style to take a sequence of lines like this:
First line
continuation line with more text,
more text. And another sentence
which continues here.
and make it look like this:
/* First line
continuation line with more text,
more text. And another sentence
which continues here. */
> If you want comment-region to produce something like the above, then
> maybe a patch like the following would make sense?
It's late down here, so instead of applying the patch and playing with
it, let me ask you: will this patch support the above use case?
> The idea is to add a new value nil to `comment-style` which would
> instruct `comment-region` to refrain from adding `comment-continue` on
> eachline of a multiline comment.
The value nil doesn't sound like a good mnemonic. I think the style I
have in mind is a multi-line style, just without the "* " leader on
each line.
Thanks.