Comments from "#if 0" to "#endif"

Comments from "#if 0" to "#endif"

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    Jul 12, 2005#1

    Hi everybody,

    I use Ultraedit as C code editor. In the code I use often the contruct "#if 0" and '#endif" to temporarily comment out blocks of code. I would like ultraedit to ink this in same color as commented blocks.
    I already tried to patch the wordfile.txt. I tried each of the following to add to the wordfile:

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    Comment Block On Alt = "#if 0" Comment Block Off Alt = "#endif"

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    Comment Block On Alt = #if 0 Comment Block Off Alt = #endif

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    Comment Block On Alt = #if%200 Comment Block Off Alt = #endif

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    Comment Block On Alt = #if\ 0 Comment Block Off Alt = #endif
    Nothing of that works.

    Does somebody knows, how to do this or what I did wrong?

    I think there may be a problem handling the white space character between "#if" and "0".
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    Grand MasterGrand Master
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      Jul 12, 2005#2

      Yes, the white space is the problem and there is no solution for it, isn't it.

      I also use often #if directive to comment some big code array. But I use

      #ifdef BCON
      code
      #ifdef Anything
      code
      #endif
      code
      #endif // BCOFF

      BCON means Block Comment On and is not defined!
      BCOFF means Block Comment Off

      These two words used as alternative block comment should comment it out, but I don't want to highlight it as comment. So I haven't tried it, if this really works.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria
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        Jul 13, 2005#3

        Hi Mofi,

        thanks for your answer. This is really a good idea. And it works indeed. But curiously only if I declare BCON and BCOFF as not alternative block comments.

        But I am working in a company with many programmers and I don't think that I can educate all to use this new style.
        So this is why this procedure doesn't satisfy my fully.

        Is there mybe another way to solve this problem?
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        Grand MasterGrand Master
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          Jul 13, 2005#4

          I have now tested BCON and BCOFF and it works as alternative block comment. According to your first post I guess, you have defined it wrong.

          Correct is: Block Comment On Alt = BCON Block Comment Off Alt = BCOFF

          But it is unfortunately not possible to specify a block comment which includes a space. This is only available for line comments. You could write an email with a feature request to IDM for a "Block Comment Num=" feature. And an extension in max. length for the block comments strings must also be requested, because according to UE help only five characters are allowed (#endif has 6). Although I think, the length can already be longer and the help is not up-to-date.
          Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria
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            Jul 14, 2005#5

            Okay, thanks for that answer. Now I know that the current version doesn't support white space inside a block comment string.
            Maybe I will make a feature request for that.

            Thanks everybody.