From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T04:55:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25638] Re: /* */ comments

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Ed L Cashin wrote:

>
> A decent text editor should provide a way to quickly comment out a
> bunch of lines.  emacs, e.g., has language-specific modes or you can
> use the "string-rectangle" function.

Just for balance :-) -- in vi you could use this:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w -p

# Filter a file and comment out all the lines
# This should be usable in vi[m] with the :[range]!comment.rb
# or !{motion}comment.rb (etc) commands

# Author:        Hugh Sasse
#
# Created:       16-NOV-2001
# Last Modified: 16-NOV-2001
# $Revision: 1.1 $
#

# add comments where there are none:
gsub(/^(\s*)([^#])/, '\1# \2') unless /^\s*$/



	#Hugh