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Fixing c-fill-paragraph with comments in Emacs 23.2.1
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Mar 15, 2026479 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I just upgraded to emacs 23.2.1 when I finally upgraded to ubuntu 10.10, but the first thing I noticed is that c-fill-paragraph (M-q) doesnt work nicely with comments anymore or at least do not work the way they did in emacs 23.1.? that I had before the upgrade. The main issue is that if I have a c…
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Fix for: Fixing c-fill-paragraph with comments in Emacs 23.2.1
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Found the answer here with a patch that can be used if recompiling emacs from scratch. Turns out it's a bug in cc-mode that hopefully is fixed in the next version of emacs. Another somewhat easier solution is to simply use rather than . EDIT: and fr…
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