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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Christopher Kauffman <kauffman@c...> |
| Subject: | ocaml-emacs mode with multiline comments |
I have been developing for a few months with ocaml and find it adds a lot enjoyment to programming. One small irritation that has bothered me for a while is the handling of comments in the default emacs mode 'ocaml-mode' that comes with the ocaml installation. I may have a setting wrong in my customization of emacs, but multiline comments never seem to maintain a consisten color. Usually I will start comment using the default keystroke M-; (which produces '(* *)') and proceed to type in the commented area. The first line stays the color of a comment as determined by the font-lock settings but when I hit enter to go to the next line and indent, the coloring reverts to the standard non-comment colors. Using the 'fill-paragraph' command (M-q) usually gets the whole multiline comment to turn the comment color, but it seems that this shouldn't be required. Also, there is no smart 'fill-paragraph' for ocaml-mode so that program code will be filled in with the comments if there is not a blank line separating them. I have experimented a bit with Tuareg-mode, the alternate mode for ocaml editing, and it did solve this, but I prefered the indenting in the default ocaml-mode and Tuareg seemd to have trouble with font colors for functions with labels. There seem to be a number of similar discussions between the two emacs modes in the archives on this list but I couldn't locate anything that dealt with these specific issues, the multiline comments and comment filling, in ocaml-mode. If anyone has pointers to other discussion or tips, please enlighten me. Cheers, Chris