Thread: Decorating code comments?

Hi all,

Not sure if this is even a proper question for this board, but the emacs people just blew me off, so might as well give it a shot.

Is there a plugin for emacs (I do know emacs has "M-x comment-box" but it's nasty ugly) or visual studio that decorates the comments at the head of a piece of C/C++ source code?

Like this:

Code:

/***************************************/
/* yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada    */
/* This is code written by X and don't it look     */
/* pretty                                                               */
/* It is protected under some license.                  */
/***************************************/

If anyone knows of a plugin or script or program that can automate tediously keying in asterisks and slashes, it would be appreciated.

matsp: Thanks, but what you suggested is very close to what "M-x comment-box" generates in emacs C/C++ mode.

Obviously, it's not critical to the code, but I think asterisks are so much prettier. (and though the code box in the OP is all messed up, I hope what I intended shows).

i always just keep a bunch of stuff (like comment headings for source files) somewhere easily accessed on my 'puter so that i can copy and paste

If this is for c++, couldn't you write a pretty simple program that allows you to enter your text, then auto-formats it for you to a .txt, then copy and paste that bad-boy?

Originally Posted by cunnus88

Is there a plugin for emacs (I do know emacs has "M-x comment-box" but it's nasty ugly) or visual studio that decorates the comments at the head of a piece of C/C++ source code?

I use emacs and have never bothered to write a macro or script to do it. I just copy a pre-existing comment block and edit it.

Thanks people. I was just hoping to indulge my laziness a bit (imagine, a single stroke of the keyboard and voila you have nice looking comments), but maybe this is my chance to study emacs lisp.