From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: one key-press to comment out lines of code? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:03:54 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <874n1ak5b9.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87fvku94ms.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398884725 1180 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2014 19:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:05:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 21:05:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WfZom-0001xo-Nu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfZom-0004NO-7s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:05:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JnfTKDZ6x/EHQARcBAAcPz9uf7I= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205228 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97495 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Others will no doubt tell you to use `M-;' > (`comment-dwim') after selecting the text. Easy to remember! - as the Lisp comment char (the initiator for one-line comments). > I prefer to use `comment-region', which I bind to > `C-x ;'. Why not use M-; for that as well? C-SPC, move point, M-; last. > To uncomment, provide a plain prefix arg (`C-u'): > `C-u C-x ;'. To comment using N comment chars, use a > numeric prefix arg: `C-3 C-x ;'. (And you can use > that to nest commented text.) Yeah, but again, I think it is much simpler to C-SPC, move point, and M-; (if the region is commented) to uncomment. So for all three cases: M-;. Note that in all programming modes it is still M-; - so it is not M-// in C++, M-% in LaTeX, etc., or anything like that. Even if there is no commenting style defined, hit M-; and Emacs will ask you what char to use. (Though if that happens a lot, you should probably configure it for a file extension, a hash bang or something like that.) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573