Re: M-q on comments in source code

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

On 24.05.2014 13:37, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> I can manually unindent the lines, edit them, format them and reindent
> them, and I`m looking for a better way.  Even something like
> auto-fill-mode for comments that does it automatically would be nice.
>
>

M-x customize-variable RET comment-style RET

setting it to 0, "plain", does this solve it?