insert stars when writing comments about emacs-scala-mode

[hvesalai]

Yes, these are all supported and documented features. Please see the https://github.com/hvesalai/scala-mode2/blob/master/README.md

More specifically https://github.com/hvesalai/scala-mode2#keymap-and-other-commands and https://github.com/hvesalai/scala-mode2#indenting-multi-line-comments

[fommil]

yes thanks, I read that part... but it doesn't address the case I am talking about (or does it?). this mode is never inserting the asterisks, it still wants me to type * at the start of each line. I find that to be distracting when concentrating on docs.

[hvesalai]

fommil: do you mean to say that (scala-indent:insert-asterisk-on-multiline-comment) does not work as documented?

[hvesalai]

I.e. did you try the alternative RET keybind that is documented in https://github.com/hvesalai/scala-mode2#keymap-and-other-commands instead of the basic newline-and-indent version?

[fommil]

aah, apologies, I missed that one. I actually already have a custom RET so I'll need to customise further.

[hvesalai]

OK

[fommil]

more on this, it seems it only works for /** not /* style comments. I guess I can live with that.

[hvesalai]

Yes. For background, I did it this way so that when I use /* blah */ to comment out a block of code, I don't want to inadvertently add extra * there that I then have to remove when I want to "activate" that block again.