On 24 Apr 2014, at 08:30 , Oliver Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23 Apr 2014, at 3:15 PM, Lawrence San <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> But if you then go back later and make a substantial edit to your 
>> hard-wrapped block comments, don't they turn into a mess? I've tried that, 
>> and ended up manually dragging numerous line fragments around to get it back 
>> into a reasonable block form, which seemed like more trouble than it's worth.
> 
> BBEdit does this automatically. Try "Text > Hard Wrap..." on a messed-up 
> comment block.

BBEdit can gracefully handle rewrapping comments if they are in BBEdit's 
preferred comment style for the language selected for a given document.

I had a rather messy comment to clean up after having rewritten some comments 
in PHP code that were written as such:

/* blah blah blah
 * blah blah blah
 * blah blah blah
 * blah blah blah
 */

BBEdit's preferred comment scheme for PHP appears to be this:

// blah blah blah
// blah blah blah
// blah blah blah
// blah blah blah

In the latter format, if you modify the comment to be something like this:

// blah blah blah
// blah foobar qux fribble
// blah blah blah
// blah frob qux blurgle

BBEdit will correctly rewrap to something like this:

// blah blah blah
// blah foobar
// qux fribble
// blah blah blah
// blah frub qux
// blurgle

If the comments are in a non-preferred format you'll end up with something more 
like this:

/* blah blah blah
* blah foobar *
qux fribble *
blah blah blah *
blah frub qux *
blurgle */

Good luck, have fun =)
Alex

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