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Hello

I use a patched PB-Editor because of easy to configure autoindent and autocomplete as Editor for a script language.
Works fine besides one thing: After ; there is of course no autocomplete and the color changes etc.

Does someone know how to change comments from ; to // ?

Thanks
RR

Why not:
Change to

IceSoft wrote:Why not:
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;//

Because that does not work

You know, most script languages use c-style After the first ; everything is treated as comment !

So the ; as commentsign must be elimenated and while that's done changing it to // would be good, but not necessary ...

IceSoft wrote:Why not:

Pure isn't C. // is ugly as hell. I could live with ' but not with //...

Thade--use Notepad++; it has configurable syntax highlighting.

blueznl wrote:... // is ugly as hell. I could live with ' but not with //...

This is comical, blue! While I would prefer the option to switch comments to // also (or add as an alternative denotation), I understand why Fred does not...but ugly? Calling (a) punctuation mark(s) ugly is ridiculous!

About 80-90% of all code written in this day and age use // as the start of a comment. That is not an exaggeration. All of the top five most popular languages (Normalized Comparison chart, on http://langpop.com/ ) use the double-slash for comments. Many of the top ten use # (perl, ruby, python) or some other "random" character, but PB is stuck in the 80's. I would be shocked if that were not the "reason" for this request.

Because PB uses the apostrophe for characters (i.e. 'a' ), PB cannot use that for comments. Many Basics of old use the semicolon, so this is one of those retro hang-on things we are going to have to deal with...unless Fred chooses to add the backward-compatible option to use // as a second method for commenting. And we all know what kind of changes Fred makes to the compiler, and this is not one of them. I'm so confident he won't that I will promise to buy myself another PB license if he does!

May be i can do it only a for a version ?

I'll throw in another version for:
block commenting
line continuation

skywalk wrote:I'll throw in another version for:
block commenting
line continuation

Yes yes ....line continuation..line continuation
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