From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: one key-press to comment out lines of code? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:18:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87bnvienx4.fsf@web.de> References: <87fvku94ms.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <2e10f82a-87c5-4c44-9495-cdd417dd9ade@default> <87ha5aeobu.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398878366 24867 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2014 17:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:19:26 +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 19:19:19 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 1WfYAA-0003nt-Et for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:19:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfYAA-0001hG-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:19:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfY9l-0001ch-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfY9e-00069Y-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfY9e-00069M-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WfY9c-0002yf-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-9-98.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.9.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-9-98.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:18:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-9-98.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bwl+mtWr6C8hDplntwLodz+Vy4o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:97490 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen 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.