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How to make a large piece of code comment?

Select it and press Ctrl+B. To uncomment, select it and press Shift+Ctrl+B.

Or, wrap it with "CompilerIf 0" and "CompilerEndIf" like this:

...and to make it foldable, prefix and suffix the first and last lines with ;{ and ;}

BarryG wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:22 am

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CompilerIf 0
  a$="Hello"+#crlf
  a$+"there"
  MessageRequester("This block is ignored",a$)
CompilerEndIf

This is a great imitation when you want to disable part of the code, but at the same time it remains readable. I think it would be possible to add special tags CommStart - CommEnd or ;cs ;ce

Marc56us wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:44 am

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;{ Here a big comment (Unfold to read in full)
; bla
; bla
; bla
;}

This method has problems: if you perform "Code Formatting", the indentation disappears and the code becomes almost unreadable.

AZJIO wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:41 pm

Marc56us wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:44 am

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;{ Here a big comment (Unfold to read in full)
; bla
; bla
; bla
;}

This method has problems: if you perform "Code Formatting", the indentation disappears and the code becomes almost unreadable.

Hi,

By "Code Formatting", you mean Ctrl + i ?
If Yes, I never have problem, indentation remain OK
(Windows version)

Marc56us wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm If Yes, I never have problem, indentation remain OK

This is only my problem, since I use my tool to correct indentation

The only time I've seen the auto-indent in the IDE seriously screw up indentation of comments is if you have a comment after something like a global variable, then another comment on the line under it. It will try to align your comment with the first one