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
