[SOLVED] Three curly brackets in c++ comments

hydrurga · 06-18-2018, 05:21 PM

I apologise for this naïve question, but I am having a look at some C++ code in the apt package and notice that there often appear to be comments containing only three curly brackets, e.g.

Code:

int main(int argc,const char *argv[])	/*{{{*/
{
   ...
}
					/*}}}*/

I can't determine what these are for. Is it some sort of pre-processing?

norobro · 06-18-2018, 06:03 PM

It is not a naive question from my perspective because I didn't know what they meant either.

The explanation is in "doc/style.txt"

Quote:

The }}} and {{{ are folding marks if you have a folding
editor such as jed, the function separators are intended to give
a visual separate between functions for easier browsing of the larger files,
or indexed folding if you have such an editor.

https://sources.debian.org/src/apt/1...style.txt/#L17

hydrurga · 06-18-2018, 06:07 PM

Very interesting!

Thanks norobro.