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Build Identifier: 20110615-0604 As a long time Emacs user making the switch to Eclipse, I have a really hard time giving up the comment wrapping feature (in Emacs, `fill-paragraph` or M-q by default). Given the sophistication of Eclipse's parser, I'm surprised this does not already exist. If there is any question about how the reflowing should behave, I suggest following Emacs' implementation. Some Emacs examples: /* Some really really [...] really long comment<M-q> Becomes: /* Some really really [...] * really long comment<cursor> -- Same thing, but the reflow key binding can be hit with the cursor anywhere on the line: /* Some really <M-q>really [...] really long comment Becomes: /* Some really really [...] * really long comment<cursor> -- Any comment style works: // Some really really [...] really long comment<M-q> Becomes: // Some really really [...] // really long comment<cursor> -- And whatever block comment styling you started with is detected and kept consistent: /* ** Some really really [...] really long comment<M-q> Becomes: /* ** Some really really [...] ** really long comment<cursor> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type a long paragraph comment and look for a option to automatically fill/reflow the paragraph. 2. Can't find the option 3. Manually enter line breaks where required. 4. Change the wording of the first sentence. 5. Return to step (3)
Up-vote. Same reasoning as Taylor. Eclipse CDT is pretty good and I'm adjusting well from Emacs. This text re-flow in comments would make my life easier.
+1, another emacs user struggling with the same issue. Interestingly, this eclipse markdown plugin: http://www.winterwell.com/software/markdown-editor.php ...comes out of the box with emacs style reflow already bound to alt-Q. Would be great to see the same thing for c++ comments in CDT.
