Author Name: David Rogoff
Original Redmine Issue: 1310 from https://www.veripool.org

Hi.

Most emacs language modes use M-; (command comment-dwim) to comment in/out blocks. verilog-mode adds the c-c c-c (verilog-comment-region) and c-c c-u verilog-uncomment-region) to comment out/in a region using a block comment.

Since it has both, I use the M-; for permanent/documentation comments and the c-c c-c for temporary/debugging comments.

Following up on that, I've added a couple of lines to verilog-comment-region:

     (beginning-of-line)
     (insert verilog-exclude-str-start)
     (insert "  ")                 ;; new code
     (insert-date-and-time)        ;; new code
     (newline)

insert-date-and-time is my function (see below), but this could be any code to insert the date and time. This doesn't interfere with verilog-uncomment-region.

Please add this to verilog-mode if you don't have an issue with it.

David

(defun insert-date-and-time ()
  "Insert current date and time at point, and newline if point is at beginning of line."
  (interactive)
  (if (prog1 (bolp)
         (let ((time (current-time-string)))
           (insert (substring time 4 11) (substring time 20 24) (substring time 10 19) )))
       ;; insert newline if point was at beginning of line
       (insert ?\n)))