Code Comment Styles Reference (Visual LISP)

The Visual LISP text editor supports five comment styles.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

The following table lists each of the supported comment styles.

Comment Styles
Comment formatting	Formatted appearance
;| Inline |;	The single-line comment appears after formatting as any other expression; the multiple-line comment appears starting at a new line
; Single-Semicolon	Starts at the comment-column position, as defined by the “Single-Semicolon comment indentation” format option
;; Current-Column	The comment appears starting on a new line, indented at the same level as the last line of program code
;;; Heading or 0-Column	Appears on a new line, without indentation
;_ Function-Closing	Appears just after the previous expression

The following example code demonstrates each comment style.

Initial text:

(defun foo (x) 
    ;|inline comment |;   
    (list 1 2 3) ;comment-column comment
    ;;current-column comment
    ;;; heading or 0-column comment
   )      ;_ function-closing comment

Formatted text:

(defun foo (x) ;|inline comment |;
    (list 1 2 3)                       ;comment-column comment
    ;;current-column comment
;;; heading or 0-column comment
) ;_ function-closing comment