Re: fill-paragraph and programming languages with comments

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From: Ethan Bradford
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 17:50

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In article <9104132008.AA16883@husc10.harvard.edu> carlton@HUSC10.HARVARD.EDU (david carlton) writes:
>Has anybody hacked fill-paragraph to work well in the presence of
>comments?  For example, if I am editing some Scheme code and hit M-q
>in the middle of the comment
>
>; aoeu oaeu euoa oaeusnaoenhtsueoa uaeon htuaeo nuaeon ueosnoensenuotsah aoeu
>; aosneutheou
>
>I want to see
>
>; aoeu oaeu euoa oaeusnaoenhtsueoa uaeon htuaeo nuaeon
>; ueosnoensenuotsah aoeu aosneutheou
>
>instead of
>
>; aoeu oaeu euoa oaeusnaoenhtsueoa uaeon htuaeo nuaeon
>ueosnoensenuotsah aoeu ; aosneutheou

Just set your fill prefix to "; ".  You could make fill prefix be
automatically set from the comment prefix when you enter your language
modes.

This will also automatically add "; " to the start of a new line if
auto-fill mode breaks your line.

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From: ethanb@milton.u.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford)
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Subject: Re: fill-paragraph and programming languages with comments
Keywords: fill prefix, comment
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Date: 16 Apr 91 17:50:25 GMT
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