Single Line HTML Comments Possible?

[BeeRich33]

Hi folks.

Just wondering, for HTML, is there a way to comment them out by not using block comments?  Blocking out single lines turns that single line into 3 lines.  Ugly as a thing that's really ugly, that is.  

The preference pane has nothing in for single line comments.  Is there an entry with some kind of placeholder that works to do this?

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As stated, this happens:

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Cheers

[Roland Küffner]

Hi, I just tried it. I may be missing something, but BBEdit already does what you want.

Try  selecting just a part of a line and choose Text > Comment Lines. This does not insert any line breaks in the comment.

Try selecting a whole line - including the line break (this is what you get e.g. with a mouse click in the number gutter).  Now, the Comment-command adds line breaks with the comment tags.

So, maybe you just had whole lines selected while using it?

Regards,

Roland

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[Rod Buchanan]

Yes. Do not include the newline character at the end of line.

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[BeeRich]

Hi there. Thanks for the response.

I usually choose a full line using the gutter where the line numbers are. It seems the trailing <cr> is what treats it like a block, including a leading <cr> before <!—

I guess that’s what I have to deal with. Oh well.

> On May 19, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Roland Küffner <medien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I just tried it. I may be missing something, but BBEdit already does what you want.
>
> Try selecting just a part of a line and choose Text > Comment Lines. This does not insert any line breaks in the comment.
>
> Try selecting a whole line - including the line break (this is what you get e.g. with a mouse click in the number gutter). Now, the Comment-command adds line breaks with the comment tags.
>
> So, maybe you just had whole lines selected while using it?
>
> Regards,
> Roland

Cheers
bee...@gmail.com

[BeeRich]

That was it.

> On May 20, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Rod Buchanan <ro...@kdsi.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yes. Do not include the newline character at the end of line.

Cheers
bee...@gmail.com

[Christopher Stone]

On 05/20/2019, at 11:16, BeeRich <bee...@gmail.com> wrote:

I usually choose a full line using the gutter where the line numbers are.  It seems the trailing <cr> is what treats it like a block, including a leading <cr> before <!—

I guess that’s what I have to deal with.  Oh well.  

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Hey There,

You don't have to select a line to comment it – you only need to have the cursor somewhere in it.

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Chris

[BeeRich33]

Ah yes.  I use this all the time.  I guess the HTML throws me off.