Re: How to use c-style to comment a region?

["William Xue" <william.xue@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 May 2007 05:14:02 +0800, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hi, William!
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:34AM +0800, William Xue wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> In cpp files, in following code, for e.g.:
>
>> ln_time_out.QuadPart = -((LONGLONG) 10 * 1000 * 1000 * 5);
>
>> I wanted to modify the second 1000 to 2000 for testing, but wanted to
>> keep  the orignal value for restoring it later.
>
>> after selected 1000 and pressed C-c C-c :
>
>>                 ln_time_out.QuadPart = -((LONGLONG) 10 * 1000 * // 1000
>>                                          * 5); // 1 second
>
>> Can it be:
>
>>                 ln_time_out.QuadPart = -((LONGLONG) 10 * 1000 * /* 1000
>> */  * 5); // 1 second
>
>> Maybe there are some settings for it, but I havn't found them.
>
> No, there aren't any such settings.
>
>> I know that add /* -*- C -*- */ at the beginning of the file can affect
>> the comment style for the whole file.
>> That's not my request, I only want a command or a keybinding.
>
> No, you certainly wouldn't want to have to use C mode just to get the
> right sort of comments.
>
> Some while ago, a CC Mode user requested a feature to toggle the type of
> comment that M-; inserts within C Mode (i.e. /* ... */  <->  // ... \n).
> I intend to write a new command to do just this, probably binding it to
> C-c C-;.  This will hopefully get implemented in CC Mode 5.32, which I am
> hoping to release shortly after both Emacs 22.1 and GPLv3 are done.

That's a good news for us. We'll wait for it!

Thanks!
:)

>
>> Thanks!
>
>> Sincerely yours,
>> William
>



-- 
Sincerely yours,
William