Unable to specify format for code comments

Unable to specify format for code comments

[jkb0932]

I apologize if this question has been asked before; I checked the forums and
different sites and read everything I could get my hands on but have been
stumped by this one, prob. because I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to
emacs. 

I would like to comment code for C source code such that 

/* this is the first line of a comment 
    and this is the second line of comment 
*/ 

becomes 

/* this is the first line of a comment 
 * this is the second line of a comment 
*/ 

In other words, put a '*' on each subsequent line. I know there is a
variable called "commend-continue", which is indeed set to " * " (I did C-h
v comment-continue RET), but I can't figure out how to make it actually
automatically insert this on each subsequent line. When I try to do "M-x
set-variable RET comment-continue RET" it says there's no such variable. 

If it helps, I've looked at newcomment.el, which does indeed have a line
dedicated to it, but is not marked "autoload", so I'm guessing it has loaded
or defined, but I'm not sure how to do this (again, I'm a newbie). 

Appreciate any feedback anyone can give. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Unable to specify format for code comments

[Le Wang]

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cc-mode has its own comment system.  See the doc for c-doc-comment-style.
 Maybe you want javadoc?

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:23 AM, jkb0932 <jasonbauer36@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I apologize if this question has been asked before; I checked the forums
> and
> different sites and read everything I could get my hands on but have been
> stumped by this one, prob. because I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to
> emacs.
>
> I would like to comment code for C source code such that
>
> /* this is the first line of a comment
>    and this is the second line of comment
> */
>
> becomes
>
> /* this is the first line of a comment
>  * this is the second line of a comment
> */
>
> In other words, put a '*' on each subsequent line. I know there is a
> variable called "commend-continue", which is indeed set to " * " (I did C-h
> v comment-continue RET), but I can't figure out how to make it actually
> automatically insert this on each subsequent line. When I try to do "M-x
> set-variable RET comment-continue RET" it says there's no such variable.
>
> If it helps, I've looked at newcomment.el, which does indeed have a line
> dedicated to it, but is not marked "autoload", so I'm guessing it has
> loaded
> or defined, but I'm not sure how to do this (again, I'm a newbie).
>
> Appreciate any feedback anyone can give. Thanks in advance.
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://old.nabble.com/Unable-to-specify-format-for-code-comments-tp30968705p30968705.html
> Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
>


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