On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:56 PM Jeff Olson <[email protected]> wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Lessons learned (for me and probably others):
>
> 1) On huge github repos, where the list of files exceeds what the gui can
> handle, the "Go to file" dialogue may hang forever unless you *use a
> private browser window* (learned that from AI just now).  That finally
> allowed me to start downloading files until your AV.ly would compile.
>
> 2) In all, that required 39 downloads, mostly of short files.  It would
> have helped in this case if you had made a zip of all those files to
> package your MWE.
>
> 3) Frescobaldi 3.1.1 doesn't seem to have an explicit way to comment out
> selected lines of code, but it does have a useful tool that helped me:  *Edit
> > Cut/Copy (advanced) > Cut and Assign (Ctrl-Shift-X).*  This moves the
> selected lines into a variable, replacing them by an invocation of that
> variable.  You can then comment out the single line invocation to disable
> all that code, or re-enable it by uncommenting that one line.
>

It's great that you found a way to compile one piece!  I looked at it but
was confounded by its complexity.

FWIW,  in newer Frescobaldi versions (4.0 and later, and maybe older
versions) you can use Ctrl-Alt-C, and Ctrl-Alt-C again to comment a
selection.  You can use Ctrl-Alt-C, Ctrl-Alt-U to uncomment.

--
Knute Snortum

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