Toggle Doxygen in Eclipse Kepler CDT C/C++ Editor

Problem:

I'm working on C/C++ in Eclipse Kepler and I would like to toggle the IDE editor's Doxygen comment helpers as they appear to be turned off by default. How do I do this?

Solution:

To toggle the "automatically generate Doxygen comment" feature in Eclipse, go to:

Preferences ... -> C/C++ -> Editor

Then look for the panel labeled Documentation tool comments and change Workspace default to "None" or "Doxygen", depending on your preference.

This is illustrated in the following image:

Notes:

If you are unsure of what Doxygen is, check out this quick explanation from Wikipedia (as of Feb 21, 2014):

Doxygen is a documentation generator, a tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code.

Article link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen. It's a fairly useful tool and you should consider using it if you don't already have a consistent style for writing comments in C++ code.

References:

• http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/207010/ (pretty much the same advice, but the above how-to has a screenshot for quick reference)