On Jun 20, 6:36 pm, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/06/10 23:10, Jay Heyl wrote: > > > I use Vim primarily for editing C source files. The feature that > > automatically repeats the comment marker, "//", at the start of a new > > line in insert mode is great. > > > Unfortunately, what I suspect is a related characteristic is not so > > great. Several times now I've been editing a line that begins with a > > multiply symbol, "*", separated by a space from the variable name that > > follows. When I press Enter I get a multiply symbol at the start of the > > next line. This isn't a major annoyance when I'm entering new code > > because it's readily noticeable, but when I'm reformatting existing code > > it's very easy to overlook and can create some highly unwanted results. > > Recently this happened and I didn't catch it. The result was an infinite > > loop that cost about two man-days to find. > > > I think Vim mistakes your multiply operator for the middle part of a > three-piece comment
I think this as well. You can fix this (but lose the automatic insertion of these three-piece comments) by tweaking your 'comments' option, probably in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim, to remove the "s1:/ *,mb:*,ex:*/" that is included by default. See :help 'comments' and :help format-comments for details. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
