Re: C style comments

[Alan Mackenzie]

Peter Collingbourne <pcc03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote on 18 Feb 2004 17:24:53 +0000:
> Hello

> I am new to Emacs and I am trying to get C style comments in Java. I.e.
> /*
>  *
>  */

> The below .emacs file works when the comment is not indented, but when there
> is an indent before the code I am commenting I get something like this
>         /*
>  * 
>  */
> i.e. there is no indent on the lines after the first one. I use M-; to open
> a comment and M-C-j to go the next line.

> Here's my .emacs

> (defun my-indent-setup ()
>   (setq c-basic-offset 8)
>   (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
>   (setq comment-multi-line t)
>   (setq comment-start "/*")
>   (setq fill-prefix   " * ")
>   (setq comment-end   " */")
> )

> (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'my-indent-setup)

Remove the `(setq fill-prefix " * ")' from my-indent-setup.

What's happening is that in `c-indent-new-comment-line' (what C-M-j is
bound to) a fill-prefix overrules everything else, and this doesn't get
indented.  Incidentally, M-j is also bound to this function, and might be
easier to type.  :-)

If you actually need fill-prefix in this buffer for some good reason,
then we'll need to think of another solution.

> Peter

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