Re: M-q on comments in source code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 13:37:03 +0200
> 
> modes like c-mode indent comments with the code, which is fine as an end
> result and not so ideal when writing them.  To give an example:
> 
> 
> ,----
> |                     if(full)
> |                             {
> |                                     //
> |                                     // A max value might be removed when 
> the arrays are shifted.  In
> |                                     // that case, find a new one after 
> shifting.  Otherwise, the max
> `----
> 
> 
> Now press M-q to format the comment and the above looks like this:
> 
> 
> ,----
> |                     if(full)
> |                             {
> |                                     //
> |                                     // A max value might be
> |                                     // removed when the arrays are
> |                                     // shifted.  In that case,
> |                                     // find a new one after
> |                                     // shifting.  Otherwise, the
> |                                     // max continues to be known.
> `----
> 
> 
> This formatting is a bit silly ...  What can I do to get the comments
> formatted as in the first example, i. e. the comment indented with the
> source but with each line trimmed to a length of about max 75
> characters, not counting the indentation?

One way is to set fill-column to a larger value.