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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:51 am
by 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.

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:02 am
by blueznl
japbe anyone? :-)

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:06 am
by freedimension
What's wrong with Ctrl-B and Alt-B?

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:07 am
by blueznl
dunno :-)

nothing i guess :-)

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:23 am
by eevee
I'm really not winning with PureBasic at the moment! :oops:

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:

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:05 pm
by freedimension
eevee wrote:Do YOU mention commenting on your docs? :roll:
Don't know, but it's always present in the editor's menu ;)

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:18 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:20 pm
by eevee
So it is .......

I think I am getting too old for this game! :(

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:27 pm
by Gansta93
There are errores when I doit.

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:36 pm
by GPI
Gansta93 wrote: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.

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:38 pm
by blueznl
japbe

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

works fine for me...

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:14 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:21 pm
by blueznl
oh i see

something like a compiiler directive...

$StartComment .. $EndComment

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:28 pm
by Gansta93
blueznl wrote:oh i see

something like a compiiler directive...

$StartComment .. $EndComment
Your example is more explicit... it'd be good! :-D

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:36 pm
by GPI
Something like

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compilerif #false
this is ignored
compilerendif
?