ASCII Art comments in C/C++ headers and code files

Recently, when I was searching something in my .php file with list of routes for a site, I've decided to make such big ASCII comments. And now, I use them (not in all source files, but for example in long config files), and these comments really help to navigate.

Here is how it looks in my Sublime Minimap:

So far, I didn't automate the process of creating such comments. I use online ASCII creator from this site. I use font "basic"

If you're using SublimeText, I suggest to try ASCII Decorator. It's easy to install it, it doesn't require anything else than Sublime and it works on every OS. Plus, it has a lot of nice fonts!

Yes I use to add those kinds of "nav" cues. Specially in communication parts which has many similar parts but handle i.e. different message types.

I work on a Mac so here goes my setup.

Previously I used a dashboard widget http://memention.com/figlet/

But my latest thing is to create a Service with Automator and install figlet with homebrew. Then in the Service I have this one-liner (also clicked "Output replaces selected text")

/usr/local/bin/figlet -f smslant -w 132

Now in any App I can have figlets just by right-clicking some text.

My preferred font is smslant

Then I usually just add /* and */ after.

Edit

Well, I just updated my Service to add that C comment

( echo "/*" ; /usr/local/bin/figlet -f smslant -w 132 ; echo " */" )

NO. I don't use such things and would find such things worse than useless. Screen = bandwidth. Wasting space like this decreases code readability.

            ______
||\   ||   /      \
|| \  ||   |      |
||  \ ||   |      |
||   \||   \______/

:-)