Block Comment

Block Comment

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    Sep 23, 2004#1

    Has anyone written a macro that will perform a block comment on a section of highlighted code.

    ex.
    if(something)
    {
    dothis++;
    }

    if(something)
    {
    dothis++;
    }

    /** if(something) **/
    ** { **
    ** dothis++; **
    ** } **/

    Well, the comments would line up but its not working so well in the forum editor. You can get the idea though.

    Thank you for any help or ideas.

    Doug
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    Grand MasterGrand Master
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      Sep 23, 2004#2

      Do you know about Edit - Comment Add and Comment Remove, which can also be assigned to hotkeys. This will add or remove a line comment on each selected line. Ok, it is not a block comment, but the result is the same.

      To temporary remove a C code section I normally use
      #ifdef TRASH
      Code
      #endif

      TRASH is not defined and so the code is ignored during compilation. I like this more, because the removed section is still highlighted normally, which is a big advantage, if I have to look at it again. Second advantage is, that I can simply search for this "comments" before creating a release version, to check, if I can delete it now or I have forgotten something to change back for the release version.

      Edited on 2010-03-02: Starting with UltraEdit v16.00 there are the commands Edit - Comment Selection and Edit - Uncomment Selection to insert/remove block comment on/off strings on the current selection.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria