c-fill-paragrpah for code, not just comments

c-fill-paragrpah for code, not just comments

[Ken Goldman]

Subject says it - I want to fill the code as well as comments.  How 
would I do that?

(The use case is auto-generated code that has to be pasted into a Word 
document and has a line length limit.)

Re: c-fill-paragrpah for code, not just comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:28:20 -0500
> 
> Subject says it - I want to fill the code as well as comments.  How 
> would I do that?

What do you mean by "fill the code"?  Source code cannot in general be
arbitrarily broken between lines, so it's not the same as filling
text in comments.

If you want to reindent it, then mark the region and type "C-M-\", but
I'm not sure this is what you want.

Re: c-fill-paragrpah for code, not just comments

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Do., 13. Dez. 2018 um 22:30 Uhr schrieb Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>:
>
> Subject says it - I want to fill the code as well as comments.  How
> would I do that?

If this is for C/C++ code, I'd recommend to use ClangFormat, it has an
Emacs integration:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html#emacs-integration

Re: c-fill-paragrpah for code, not just comments

[James K. Lowden]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:28:20 -0500
Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> (The use case is auto-generated code that has to be pasted into a
> Word document and has a line length limit.)

Ah, so what you really want to do is format the code to fit the
allotted space.  That's not "filling", which usually means to re-flow
the lines as prose.  

I don't know the emacs answer.  I think you'll find that GNU indent has
all the knobs you need, though.  

--jkl