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From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: one key-press to comment out lines of code?
Date: 30 Apr 2014 20:09:11 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnlm2m37.pm5.joost.m.kremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y4ymiqfg.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se

Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
>
>> Set point and mark to define the region.  Then do
>>
>>     C-x r t RET ; SPC RET
>
> I think it is much better to use C-SPC, then move
> point, and then M-;.

True. But knowing about `string-rectangle` is a good thing. You never
know when you find yourself in an Emacs challenge competition and you
have to comment out a region without using `comment-region` or
`comment-dwim`. ;-)


-- 
Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-30 20:09 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
2014-04-30 16:27 ` Dale Snell
2014-04-30 17:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-30 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.391.1398874951.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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
     [not found]         ` <mailman.441.1398955214.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 15:03           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.392.1398875301.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-30 19:10   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-30 20:09     ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2014-05-01 14:15       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-01 14:31         ` Joost Kremers
2014-04-30 21:12     ` Dale Snell
     [not found]     ` <mailman.417.1398892388.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 14:05       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-01 22:54         ` Dale Snell
     [not found]         ` <mailman.469.1398984898.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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
     [not found]             ` <mailman.520.1399052563.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-02 19:59               ` Emanuel Berg

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