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From: jrferro@athena.mit.edu (Jon R Ferro)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: C comments using auto-fill-mode
Summary: How do I work this?
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Date: 14 Mar 89 06:43:10 GMT
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My preferred style for C block comments is:

/*		<- Notice empty line
** Text
** Text
**		<- Paragraph break
** Text
*/

I would like to use auto-fill-mode to help justify my block comments. I
have fill-prefix set to "** ", but I have yet to find proper settings
for paragraph-start and paragraph-separate to prevent

/*
** Text
...

from becoming

/* Text
** Text
...

when I do M-q (fill-paragraph) in the first paragraph of the comment.

Is there a quick fix for this? Would it help me to use one of the
c-comment-mode programs floating around? (Where can I get one?)

I am using GnuEmacs 18.50 under X on a Vax workstation.

--Jon

Jon Ferro
MIT Mathematics
jrferro@athena.mit.edu