kdevelop pasting C-style comments

[Dave Close]

"D. R. Evans" wrote:

>In kdevelop, if I copy the following text into the copy/paste buffer from a 
>pre-existing file:
>
>/*! \brief            Create a directory if it does not already exist
>     \param  dirname   name of the directory to create
>     \return           Whether directory was created
>*/
>
>and then I paste it into a different file (or, actually, even the same file), 
>instead of a byte-for-byte copy of what I just put into the buffer, what 
>appears in the destination file is:
>
>/*! \brief            Create a directory if it does not already exist
>  *  \param  dirname   name of the directory to create
>  *  \return           Whether directory was created
>  */
>
>There must be something in kdevelop settings somewhere to control this (it 
>started with a recent upgrade to debian trixie from bookworm), but I can't 
>find any documentation on the subject. I'm probably just looking in the wrong 
>place. If it's not obvious: I want the pasted text to exactly match what I cop
>ied.

The "paste" function appears actually to be feeding your copied text to
the input (keyboard) mechanism, doing with each byte in turn exactly what
it would do if you had typed those bytes. So one clue might be to find
any option which controls what happens when you type. For example, any
auto-indent function. I don't know if there is such an option that would
help you, but that's where I'd look.
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