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Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line [message #48660 is a reply to message #48659]

Wed, 10 May 2006 10:45

Dick Jackson
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Registered: August 1998

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Hi t.,

<newbie16@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147270176.136145.278620@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hi Everyone:
>
> When using EMACS for FORTRAN, I routinely start a comment by the
> character sequence: M-;
>
> This puts a "C" at the beginning of a line and indents to column 7. I
> love this feature of EMACS and do it quite automatically now. However,
> when using the same sequence in IDLWAVE-mode, a ";" is placed in the
> middle of the line and the comment starts there, when I really want it
> at the beginning of the line.

Short answer: use ';;' instead of ';'

More helpful answer:
In IDLWAVE mode you can bring up help for the mode with C-h m (or menu
IDLWAVE:Documentation:Describe Mode), which says, in part:

Comments are indented as follows:

`;;;' Indentation remains unchanged.
`;;' Indent like the surrounding code
`;' Indent to a minimum column.

The indentation of comments starting in column 0 is never changed.

Hope this helps!

--
Cheers,
--
-Dick

Dick Jackson / dick@d-jackson.com
D-Jackson Software Consulting / http://www.d-jackson.com
Victoria, BC, Canada / +1-250-220-6117

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		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: JD Smith on Thu, 11 May 2006 12:21
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: cgguido on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:05
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: JD Smith on Wed, 10 May 2006 19:34
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: cgguido on Wed, 10 May 2006 14:54
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: newbie16 on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:35
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: JD Smith on Wed, 10 May 2006 11:03
		Re: IDLWAVE and starting a comment on a new line By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:45

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