Allow a user to select whether block comments (either individually or both as a group) syntax highlights the background of the entire block, including 'empty' lines. The colors used here are for illustrative purposes only, they are not the colors I use normally :) Here's what MEW currently does: Here's what I'd like to choose can happen per block comment (in this example both block comments are shown highlighting to the width of the window): (I had to deliberatly mispell the block ending characters to show the highlighting to the end of the line)