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Re: Auto Fill Comments
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Auto Fill Comments |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:59:07 +0100 |
M-q was what I have been doing. Want to try out auto fill, see if it can save
me
using the key binding. I usually keep code quite compact, but will check out
what you discussed.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 8:11 AM
> From: "Robert Thorpe" <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>
> > Would this be good enough to Auto Fill Comments in c language.
> > What can I use for Auto Fill Comments for other languages, e.g.
> > fortran, elisp, c++, texinfo, bash, awk, org, R.
> >
> > ;; Apply Auto Fill to comments but not code in programming language modes.
> > (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
> > (lambda ()
> > (auto-fill-mode 1)
> > (set
> > (make-local-variable 'fill-nobreak-predicate)
> > (lambda ()
> > (not (eq (get-text-property (point) 'face)
> > 'font-lock-comment-face)))) ))
>
> Notice that "M-q" performs paragraph filling for comments in C and other
> languages. It is not *auto* filling certainly, but it's very useful.
>
> I've found that to be the best myself. That's because of commenting out
> code. The problem is if you comment out code then modify it when it's a
> comment. If you set Emacs to auto-fill comments, then it will auto-fill
> those code comments as though they're text. That's wrong when you want
> to uncomment the block and make it back into code, it removes the
> indentation.
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe
>
>
>
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