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From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Hiding comments in C mode
Summary: macros would maybe be good enough for a start...
Message-ID: <296@dana.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 22:39:42 GMT
References: <8801202039.AA09434@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8801202039.AA09434@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill) writes:

> being able to hide comments on command.  How hard would it be to add
> this feature to GNU's C mode?  It sure would be handy, and a boon to
> readability, to be able to compress comments into /**/.  Kinda like
> outline mode...

It seems that to get a similar effect, (have not tried yet, but see
no reason why not), you could:

Mark beginning of C source
Move to end of C source
Copy region to buffer:   no-comments
Switch to buffer:	 no-comments
Loop the following:
Find "/*" 
Set Mark
Find "*/" cursor-left onto the "*"
Delete-region
Repeat loop until end of buffer

And view that new buffer.  Problem would come in if you wanted to
make changes (or add new comments) and then want to push that back
into the source - hmmm maybe a combination of diff and patch
(but I don't have time to do it, though I do agree, neat idea -
usually I have so many comments in my code folks find it difficult
to see the code itself.)

Rob Peck					...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap