Re: Commenting C++ code - TIPS

From: bartek (spam.will.eat.itself_at_o2.pl)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 21:35:50 +0000 (UTC)

"John Harrison" <john_andronicus@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:2fvk5aF2s0alU1@uni-berlin.de:

>
> "bartek" <spam.will.eat.itself@o2.pl> wrote in message
> news:Xns94E1DA57D4976bartekdqwertyuiopo2p@153.19.251.200...
>> "John Harrison" <john_andronicus@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:2fumrpF2ijfgU1@uni-berlin.de:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> > Using an IDE that has syntax colouring you would immediately see
>> > which block was commented out. I've never seen an IDE that can
>> > colour #if #else #endif blocks though.
>>
>> FYI, gvim does it. Maybe it's not an IDE in
>> full-blown-sense-of-the-word, though, but a bloody useful code editor
>> nonetheless.
>>
>
> Does it colour the block depending on whether it will be compiled or
> not?
>
> #if 0
> // one colour
> #endif
>
> #if 1
> // another colour
> #endif
>
> That's what struck me as useful about rajeshb's tip.

Certainly. Gvim's C/C++ syntax colour definition treats #if 0 ... #endif
block just like it was a comment. 

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