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Re: commenting [message #23869 is a reply to message #23791]

Wed, 21 February 2001 09:59

jeyadev
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In article <3A92A095.EB03CCA4@cmb.physics.wisc.edu>,
Christopher W. O'Dell <odell@cmb.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
> that is BEAUTIFUL. perfect. Now my repetitive motion injuries
> may begin the long healing process!
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Christopher W. O'Dell (odell@cmb.physics.wisc.edu) writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> It's wishful thinking.
>>
>> But you can always temporarily wrap code you want to ignore
>> in an IF statement:
>>
>> ignore = 1
>> IF ignore NE 1 THEN BEGIN
>>
>> ... code to ignore here...
>>
>> ENDIF ; of code I am ignoring
>>
>> It's not elegant, but if the code you want to ignore
>> consists of a lot of lines, it cuts down on repetitive
>> motion injuries. And you can easily go back and forth
>> just by setting the ignore flag. :-)

Come on, David, it is bloody elegant! I stumbled across this
in the days of Fortran II, with a GO TO statement to boot. Now,
that was a lot less elegant!

And, if you use vi, here is something I do:

:l1,l2s/^./;&

where l1 and l2 are the line numbers delimiting the block of interest.
And, you undo it with

:l1,l2s/;//

Voila!

--

Surendar Jeyadev jeyadev@wrc.xerox.com

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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
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