On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It sounds good - and using it in RDi - sure - the color coding makes the comment obvious.
But in shops where folks insist on using SEU that “feature” is a sure-fire time waster and error generator.
I was going to let this thread go, and I do still think this is a
minor issue any which way you slice it; but the way I see it, block
comments would be a much bigger help in SEU than in RDi.
You said yourself that RDi has an easy way to comment or uncomment a
whole block at a time (using line comments on a selection). Most
editors designed for programming have this feature, and I agree it
makes block comments almost completely superfluous.
But how do you comment out a whole bunch of lines in SEU? I will be
extremely embarrassed if there's an easy way and I've been missing it
all these years, but I will survive the embarrassment if you point it
out now. What I normally do is "sidestep" the code by surrounding it
with "if '0';" and "endif;". The avoided code is of course still
parsed and compiled and could conceivably contain old-style variable
declarations and so on, but it's the simplest and quickest way I know
to achieve something similar to a block comment in SEU. It also has
the added bonus of not touching the dates on the pseudo-commented-out
lines.
Does the Linoma software maybe have SEU extenders that do RDi-style
line-comment-over-a-selection?
John Y.
midrange.com
