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Re: commenting [message #23867 is a reply to message #23779]

Thu, 22 February 2001 10:56

marc schellens[1]
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Registered: January 2000

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Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> "Christopher W. O'Dell" wrote:
>
>> This is probably wishful thinking, but is there any way to
>> comment out a large section of code as in C,
>> where you don't have to insert a ';' on every line of code,
>> but you can use a beginning and ending comment delimiter?
>> I have this idea that there might be secret delimiters that
>> i have not yet heard about in IDL. And I'm very lazy and
>> have often longed for this feature.
>
> Yes, the secret delimiters are 'GOTO, EndOfComment' and 'EndOfComment:'.

Hmmm, with that way you can only comment out lines not containing syntax
errors.
In emacs you can use idl-wave mode, mark a region and then type C-c ;
but who uses this mode will already know...

:-) marc

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		Re: commenting By: Alex Schuster on Wed, 21 February 2001 04:54
		Re: commenting By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 20 February 2001 11:04
		Re: commenting By: Christopher W. O'Dell on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:51
		Re: commenting By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:43
		Re: commenting By: davidf on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:17
		Re: commenting By: jeyadev on Wed, 21 February 2001 09:59
		Re: commenting By: marc schellens[1] on Thu, 22 February 2001 10:56

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