Re: commenting lines

[Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>]

Gareth,

I have the following in my .emacs, which I use for that sort of 
thing.  Just set mark at the beginning of the first line you want to 
comment out, move point to the beginning of the last line, invoke the 
command, and type in the string you want to use as a comment.

(global-set-key [?\C-\A-\M-s] (lambda (string start end)
                                               (interactive "sString: \nr")
                                               (string-rectangle start 
end string)))

I use the following for removing those comments.  Set mark at the 
beginning of the first line you want to uncomment, move point to the 
last line just after the last character of the comment, and invoke 
the command.

(global-set-key [?\C-\A-\M-d] (lambda (start end)
                                                            (interactive "r")
 
(delete-rectangle start end)))

--Greg

At 12:59 PM +0100 7/2/02, Gareth Walker wrote:
>Hi all -- I know it is possible to comment out text in Emacs with 
>`comment-region', but is it possible to specify what goes at the 
>beginning of each line?  I would like to `label' regions of my text 
>files with different things.
>
>best wishes
>
>Gareth
>
>
>
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