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[eevee]

In PureBasic.exe, highlighting a series of consecutive lines and pressing a character will replace the highlighted line with the single character pressed.

However if the character entered is a TAB the whole block is simply tabbed rather than replaced. Similarly pressing SHIFT-TAB tabs back removing the white spaces at the front of the lines.

It would be nice if a similar mechanism to the TAB one existed for quickly commenting out a block of lines. In other words pressing ; would insert the commenting semi-colon in front of all highlighted lines.

[blueznl]

japbe anyone?

[freedimension]

What's wrong with Ctrl-B and Alt-B?

[blueznl]

dunno

nothing i guess

[eevee]

I'm really not winning with PureBasic at the moment!

But ........

where on earth are the instructions for this flipping program?

The command list is great but that is what it is - a listing of functions.

Short of ploughing through other people's (such as yours Blueznl) documents there does not seem to be a unified resource.

OR am I wrong on this one also? :roll:

Do YOU mention commenting on your docs? :roll:

[freedimension]

Do YOU mention commenting on your docs? :roll:

Don't know, but it's always present in the editor's menu

[Gansta93]

With JaPBe, it is possible to do

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;{
Comments line 1
comment line2
etc...
;}

If we would be able to do that with PureBasicEditor, it would be good.

[eevee]

So it is .......

I think I am getting too old for this game!

[Gansta93]

There are errores when I doit.

[GPI]

With JaPBe, it is possible to do

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;{
Comments line 1
comment line2
etc...
;}

No, this doesn't command the lines! It make the lines foldable.

[blueznl]

japbe

1. [shft] + [cursor down]
2. [ctrl] +

works fine for me...

[Gansta93]

Yes. It works so with PureBasic editor. But it would quickly if we would be able to do something to comment lines like C or C++ (not same "/**/"), but another.
For example,

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;*Comments
Second line of comments
others...*;

it would be good... no restriction in the code, because of the ";" at first, and quick to comment lines without selection and shortcut.

[blueznl]

oh i see

something like a compiiler directive...

$StartComment .. $EndComment

[Gansta93]

oh i see

something like a compiiler directive...

$StartComment .. $EndComment

Your example is more explicit... it'd be good!

[GPI]

Something like

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compilerif #false
this is ignored
compilerendif

?