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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Hiding comments in C mode
Message-ID: <1460@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 19:19:43 GMT
References: <8801202039.AA09434@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <296@dana.UUCP>
Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Lines: 19
Summary: "what if..."

>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...

While in the midst of intercourse, a sudden, wonderful "what if..." (tm)
sprang to mind, so I hopped out of the jacuzzi, dialed up, logged in, and
dropped out to the usenet and wrote:

Wouldn't it be nice to do selective display of C ifdefs in addition to C
comments. Something like that might make the source code in highly portable
programs such as gnuemacs much easier to deal with.
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