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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:33:42 -0400
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"Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com> writes:

> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>
>> I don't think GPS has support to reformat paragraphs of comments, or I have
>> missed it till now. I'm mainly concerned with maintenance, since writing it
>> nice the first time is easy. The problem comes with updates. Are you using
>> some other editor? Some python script? Some other tool? Doing it by hand?
>
> I have nothing to do with Basil, but I will mention that Emacs knows
> how to reformat paragraphs of comments (in Ada code) 

And many other languages; the basic 'paragraph fill' mechanism
understands about comment syntax.

> out of the box. In fact, this is one reason why I still tend to use
> Emacs... I'm too lazy to write the necessary macros, etc, to make
> this work in other editors. I don't understand why this feature
> isn't standard in all modern IDEs.

Does anyone know if Eclipse has a similar feature? I keep bumping into
references to how wizzy Eclipse is; I may have to switch to it sometime.

-- 
-- Stephe