created February 10, 2004 · complexity intermediate · author Michael Brailsford · version 6.0
This will continue lines of /// doxygen comments when you reach the end of a line while typing a comment. It also works if you use o to open a new line while on a comment starting with ///. It only works if there is a space between the last / and the first letter of the comment, that is no big deal, since it lends itself to readability. So for example:
/// This will work. ///This won't.
Here is the magic line. Make sure you put it somewhere that will get sourced whenever you open a file you want to use with doxygen. I have it in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c/c.vim, so it gets sourced for all C and C++ files.
set comments=sO:*\ -,mO:*\ \ ,exO:*/,s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/,bO:///,O://
All other comments will continue to work as expected.
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I use:
set comments-=:// set comments+=:///,://
True, it puts them at the end of the comment expression list, but I don't think that will be a problem. This way, I don't have to worry about any other comment expressions that may be present.
Keep in mind that loading a new syntax file overwrites whatever you have set "comments" to be. Add this to your vimrc if you don't want to keep retyping "set comments..."
autocmd FileType c,cpp set comments-=:// autocmd FileType c,cpp set comments+=://! autocmd FileType c,cpp set comments+=://