Macro for commenting lines out?

[jason404]

Has anybody got a macro which can comment out (as in add a # at the start of) lines within a marked block?  That would be so useful.  And one that could uncomment as well?

I currently use vertical pastes, but they need to be done repeatedly or trimmed, depending on how many lines need to be commented, so what I do more often is do it manually.

Basically, I'm thinking of something just like the Shift function, but it adds or removes a column of hashes and then one column of spaces, rather than spaces/tab.

[jason404]

I just realised I could use an external script using Through, as it works on marked blocks.

[John Gabriele]

I created a couple of very simplistic macros for this (I don't remember if someone else suggested their content to me --- Todd is always passing along good ideas), and bound them to [x and [w. The comment macro is:

~~~

InsertString "// "
MoveLeft
MoveLeft
MoveLeft
LineDown

~~~

and the uncomment:

~~~

Mark
MoveRight
MoveRight
MoveRight
Erase
LineDown
~~~

-- John

[jason404]

Hi.  I just added these to my .keys file:

# META 1
 
KEY 1B1 Through sed 's/^/# /'
 
# META 2
 
KEY 1B2 Through sed 's/^# //'

This adds/removes a hash and then a space at the begging of the lines in a marked block, by typing alt-1/2.

Cheers.

[John Gabriele]

Nice approach! Thanks for sharing.