Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU!tobeye From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: ctext suggestion Message-ID: Date: 25 May 90 18:12:52 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 While I'm making suggestions, I might as well mention something that I've put up with for a while... Has anyone noticed how ctext auto-indent feature continues to work even inside comment blocks? This is annoying because ctext wants semi-colons at the end of the line in order to line up with the line above it. However, I very rarely add semi-colons to the end of my lines in a comment! What tends to happen is that ctags indents 2 more spaces for the 2nd+ line of a comment. However, as I use other puncutation (most particularly open parenthesis toward the end of a line), ctext indents even more. REALLY, when I'm in a comment, I just want the lines to line up below each other. (While enhanhing this, it would be nice if comments automatically added the next '*' on the next line, too, but that would be for bonus points). Try typing this comment using ctext: /* This is just a C comment. Nothing fancy - it just has some general text (and perhaps one note in parenthesis, too) */ You'll see that 'it' appears indented 2 characters over. You'll see that "one note" is very far over to the right, starting just after the '('. It looks like this: /* This is just a C comment. Nothing fancy - it just has some general text (and perhaps one note in parenthesis, too) */ Ideally, I'd like to to do this: /* This is just a C comment. Nothing fancy - * it just has some general text (and perhaps * one note in parenthesis, too) */ - Anthony Edwards