Feature request: "Insert as comment"

[Andre]

As the topic says... it would be a handy feature:
This would help to insert some text as comment into the code (the IDE should add "; " in front of each lines automatically before inserting in the code view), while currently the IDE always detects "keyword, command, etc." names in the text and change the first letter to big char. This must be corrected manually then...

[Kaeru Gaman]

you mean, when inserting more than one line from another text editor...?

[KJ67]

To aid copy/paste from other editors a CommentSection/EndComment section would be both practical, allow adjusting line lengths and following the syntax.

[skywalk]

I prefer Edit - Paste - Special.
That follows established GUIs such as Excel and others.
Then the 'special' dialog can allow further options.
(Definitely annoyed by keyword capitalization on text pastes.)

[UserOfPure]

Why not just type ; before pasting?

[Kaeru Gaman]

why not just read before posting?

it's about more than one line.

a parallel functionality to adding ; at the beggining -> insert as comment
could be adding " at beginning and end of a line -> insert as quoted text

[Andre]

you mean, when inserting more than one line from another text editor...?

Yes, exactly.

Inserting a multi-line block of text as comment (= with "; " in front of it), because you can't do this easily at the moment (currently the Syntax-Highlighting will always detect keywords/commands/etc. and change their first char...).

[freak]

Inserting a multi-line block of text as comment (= with "; " in front of it), because you can't do this easily at the moment (currently the Syntax-Highlighting will always detect keywords/commands/etc. and change their first char...).

Well, you could just write a tool for the IDE to add the ";"'s to the text in the clipboard in 10 lines of code, problem solved.

You are all programmers... be a little creative!

[skywalk]

I'm beginning to "get" this freak character...He's more, "Don't ask, just DO!".

So, yes, let's all list our annoyances or time-saving tips and submit them on say maybe a ....hmmmm....now where should I list them? Is this FORUM still accepting inputs?!!

rant over...

[Michael Vogel]

There's another reason to get ";" easily at the beginning of one (or more) lines, which can be seen when put something like this into the editor:

Code: Select all

Message(s+" enter valid value: 3 to 5 or 7 to 11")

Now I want to change the line to:

Code: Select all

Message("Oh no! "+s+" enter valid value: 3 to 5 or 7 to 11")

But when the first doublequote will have been entered, the "to" and "or" have already been changed to "To" and "Or"

A hotkey for adding/removing a semicolon to the top of one line could be fine, when I want to paste a text with a couple of lines, I would do this with a text editor before pasting the text...

Michael