Re: how to align the comments to start from the same column?

[William Xue]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:18:49 +0800, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> "William Xue" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   > Hi,
>   > when I am coding in cpp files, I will use M-; to make some comments,
>   > like  following:
>   >
>   >                          
> IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint(&h_rd_file,
>   > //  file handle
>   >                                                              
> GENERIC_READ
>   > |  GENERIC_WRITE, // desire access
>   >                                                              
> &rd_file_obj_attr,
>   > // object attributes
>   >                                                              
> &rd_io_status_block,
>   > // io status block
>   >                                                             0, //
>   > allocation size
>   >                                                              
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
>   > // file attributes
>   >                                                              
> FILE_SHARE_READ,
>   > // share access
>   >
>   > Is there a way to format the comments to the same column?
>   >
>   > I want something like:
>   >
>   > 1. select the codes as a region
>   > 2. press a magic keybinding
>   > 3. the comments align to the longest column of comments in the  
> region.
>
>
> You can find this package:
>
> ;;; bc-mode.el --- Minor mode for formatting right-margin block comments.
> ;;
> ;; Copyright (C) 1991-1996 Steve Burgett <address@hidden>
> ;; $Id: bc-mode.el,v 1.1 1996/10/19 18:54:00 burgett Exp burgett $
> ;;
> ;; Author: Steve Burgett <address@hidden>
> ;; Created: July 1992
> ;; Version: 1.1
> ;; Keywords: comment minor-mode programming editing
> ;; HTTP: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~burgett/
>
> It has very sophisticated comment handling, I think it does what you  
> want.

Thanks for the information. But the url seems invalid here.
I have googled about it, not found any place to download it.
---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
;;; bc-mode.el --- BC code editing commands for Emacs
;; Copyright (C) 2005  Kumar Appaiah

;; Author: Kumar Appaiah <address@hidden>
;; Keywords:

---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
this file seems not the same with yours.

Could you send it to me by mail?
In advance thanks!

--
Sincerely yours,
William