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Subject: how does one customize C comments in GNU emacs?
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 00:48:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 00:48:11 1987
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Summary: how do you customize C comments?

I've been fiddling with my c-mode-hook for a while and have just given
up on it.  Has anyone coerced GNU emacs into a comment style like the
one I use or know how to do it?

/*
 *  I like my C comments to look like this.  Note that I start the
 *  text on the second line of the comment, not the first line
 *  with the "/*".  Also, I like TWO spaces before the text begins
 *  after the asterisk.
 */

When I try to fill this ``paragraph'', emacs insists that I have
the text begin on the first line, and that I only have one space
between the asterisk and the text, rendering the above paragraph
as:

/* I like my C comments to look like this.  Note that I start the
 * text on the second line of the comment, not the first line
 * with the "/*".  Also, I like TWO spaces before the text begins
 * after the asterisk.
 */

Another annoying problem is that when I type ``/ * RET'' to begin
a block comment, I get positioned on the next line one column past
the asterisk on the previous line.  Why not below the previous
asterisk so I can type another, or even better, have it type the
``SPC * SPC SPC'' for me at the beginning of the line?

I've put these lines in my c-mode-hook, but they don't seem to
affect things.  I must be missing something here.

  (setq fill-prefix " *  ")
  (setq comment-start "/*\n *  ")
  (setq comment-start-skip "/\\*+\n \\*+")