On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:36:43 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > >> I wonder if I could ask a question that follows on from Bernd's > >> sentiment. He points out that the IDE will pick up a comment /before/ a > >> declaration, but for getting on for 30 years I've been putting comments > >> immediately /after/ and that includes the positioning of a unit summary. > > > > Use the < sign at the beginning. > > > > a=1; > > //< Comment for a > > b=2; > > //< Comment for b > > > > See here > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_Tools#Comments_shown_in_the_hint > > Thanks, I was reading it. Would be nice if the no-space restriction > could be relaxed. Maybe eventually a per unit flag can be set to relax this. > If every line of a comment block is terminated does > the IDE pick up all of them and does each one need < at the start? You mean: a=1; //< Comment for a //< another comment for a > > All three comment formats are supported by the IDE: > > // > > {} > > (**) > > Does this include manually-inserted TODOs? The todo list supports all three styles. > I'd also note- although it's > not really relevant for documentation- that braces appear to be favoured > for directives: (*$MACRO didn't work when I tried it a few months ago. Yes. That's a fpc decision. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
