(C++) Stuck between a rock and a very, very hard place.

Are you forced to use "Geany"?

[MENTION=4093]SaptaZapta[/MENTION]; Huh? As of C99 (Which is 13 years old now) you can have single line comments in C.

Sorry to misguide (haven't used C in longer than that, unfortunately), but as of 8 years ago or so, that type of comment still worked on some emacs flavors and at least one Unix IDE whose name I forget but used file logic. I admit it's a rather desperate solution, that's why I put it third.