Incorrect ANSI-C line comments

[VernonGrant]

Hi, I need to follow strict ANSI-C coding standards on a project. From my understanding, ANSI-C only supports comments that are in the style of block comments. The issue is when I press the shortcut CTRL-/, I still get line comments in the format of:

// if (something == 0) break;

But what I really need is the comment to be in this format:

/* if (something == 0) break; */

I did change the C_Cpp.default.cStandard to c89 but it has no effect. How can I solve this issue? Because now commenting out lines are very cumbersome, I need to manually select the line and then press CTRL-SHIFT-A. Thanks!

[Colengms]

Hi @VernonGrant . I think you might be looking for the Toggle Block Comment command (Shift-Alt-A, by default), rather than the Toggle Line Comment command (Ctrl-/). You can reassign shortcuts in the Preferences: Keyboard Shortcut UI, if you'd like to make the shortcut more convenient.

These comment commands are implemented by VS Code itself, not the C/C++ extension. Looking over the VS Code API for extensions, I don't believe there is a way for an extension to modify the behavior of these commands.

Since this seems to be external, I'm going to close the issue. If you feel there is something more we can do here, please let us know.

[VernonGrant]

Noted, thanks @Colengms