Re: commenting out blocks of code

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:36:06 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Commenting and uncommenting should be two different commands: the whole
point of nested comments is that it allows you to comment a block of text
which may already contain comments. Having one command do both commenting
and uncommenting according to the presence or absence of semantic clues in
the text is a recipe for failure ("No you stupid computer, I want to
COMMENT that block, not uncomment it!!!").

Imagine if your text editor used cntl-C for both copy and paste, somehow
guessing whether you wanted to copy selected text or paste over it
according to some subtle clue in the text itself. Wouldn't that be fun?


emacs' comment-dwim (M-;) has never guessed incorrectly, in my experience. Of course, if it ever does, I can always invoke comment-region or uncomment-region, as appropriate.



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