Re: /* */ style comments in C++ sources

[John Mastro]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell Emacs to use the C-style comments in C++
>> sources?  (I couldn't find that in the CC Mode manual.)
>
> No, there is no (reasonable) way to tell CC Mode what style of comments
> one prefers.
>
> People have asked about this before.  It seems like it would be a useful
> facility to add.  Though it might take a surprisingly large amount of
> work to implement.

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I thought setting
`comment-start' and `comment-end' worked for this?

        John