From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: one key-press to comment out lines of code?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:18:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnvienx4.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ha5aeobu.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> > Others will no doubt tell you to use `M-;' (`comment-dwim') after
> > selecting the text.
> >
> > I prefer to use `comment-region', which I bind to `C-x ;'.
>
> And to select the current sexp, do C-M-h.
BTW, another method is to just insert a quote char ' before the sexp.
While it has the same effect of commenting out, this has the advantage
that you can still edit the sexp normally, you can e.g. still copy parts
of it to another position etc. without the need to uncomment or restore
a destroyed paren structure.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-30 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-30 16:14 one key-press to comment out lines of code? Sharon Kimble
2014-04-30 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-30 17:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-04-30 17:18 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2014-04-30 16:27 ` Dale Snell
2014-04-30 17:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-30 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-04-30 19:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-30 20:54 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-30 21:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.414.1398891311.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 13:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-01 14:39 ` Drew Adams
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2014-05-01 15:03 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-04-30 19:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-30 20:09 ` Joost Kremers
2014-05-01 14:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-01 14:31 ` Joost Kremers
2014-04-30 21:12 ` Dale Snell
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2014-05-01 14:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-01 22:54 ` Dale Snell
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2014-05-01 23:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-02 0:11 ` Joost Kremers
2014-05-02 1:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-03 2:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-03 2:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-02 17:42 ` Dale Snell
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2014-05-02 19:59 ` Emanuel Berg
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