Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Scite, for example, lets me selected a block and hit Ctrl-Q to either >> comment or uncomment the block. > > I see the developers of Scite are either newbies to GUI programming, or > they operate in a world of their own. Ctrl-Q is reserved for Quit (or > Exit) in every GUI API I know of.
Your experience obviously differs from mine. I just tried Ctrl-Q on both windows and ubuntu and in neither case did it exit applications consistently: For example Firefox uses Alt-F4 in both cases. My own favourite editor (Epsilon) uses Ctrl-Q for the 'quoted-insert' command (hardly suprising given its similarity to emacs). >> (It does this by prefixing each line >> with #~ instead of just #, which allows it to detect when a line is >> already so commented and reverse the operation.) > > It is *easy* to detect when a line is already commented. It starts with a > #. The ~ is superfluous. > Not so easy if the lines to be commented already contain some lines starting with comments. Messing around with the comments themselves sounds highly unsatisfactory though. I agree with you that the best solution is to use different commands (or as Epsilon does a single command which can be modified with a prefix Ctrl-U). That way I can select a large region and comment it all out, or uncomment disjoint parts of it as I choose. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
