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 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. > > > -- Le