From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-08-15T19:42:56+09:00 Subject: Re: block commenting-out Chad Perrin writes: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:42:20PM +0900, Gene Tani wrote: >> >> newyorkdolluk wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > can anyone tell me how to bulk comment-out lines of code rather than >> > #'ing each line? >> > >> > thanks >> >> Komodo can do block commenting out, prepending "#". Scite prepends >> "##" so you know that is was done in bulk fashion. Your editor must >> hvae something of the sort to block comment and uncomment. > > Vim could, of course, do it via a substitution iterating over a number > of lines indicated by a prepended number. I'm sure EMACS (Esc Meta Alt > Ctrl Shift) could do something similar, but with four times as many keys > involved. > > What, me biased? Never. M-x comment-region Bind to every key you like (I don't use it often). C-u M-x comment-region (or M-x uncomment-region) will uncomment. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org