Atanas Banov:
> here is something you both seems to have not considered: imagine you
> make decision if ^Q has to comment or uncomment based on the 1st line
> and not on each line individually in the block.
When first implementing Ctrl+Q, this looked to have similar
advantages and disadvantag
Steve Holden wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:12:01 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
>>>Scite, for example, lets me selected a block and hit Ctrl-Q to either
>>>comment or uncomment the block.
>>>(It does this by prefixing each line
>>>with #~ instead of just #, which allows it
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:12:01 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
>
>
>>john peter wrote:
>>
>>>is there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing
>>>the '#' character to the start of each statement i do not
>>>want to execute (which gets old very quickly if one needs to
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:14:49 +, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> I am the developer responsible for SciTE and the Ctrl+Q decision.
> Ctrl+Q is not reserved for Quit on every platform.
[snip]
Thank you for your thoughtful response. Although I'm not convinced by your
reasoning, I will concede that
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
Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> > It is *easy* to detect when a line is already commented. It starts with a
> > #. The ~ is superfluous.
>
> It is not usual to change a line from being code to being a comment
> as most lines of code make no sense as English text. If you do sometimes
> want
Hi Steven,
> 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.
I am the developer responsible for SciTE and the Ctrl+Q decision.
Ctrl+Q is not reserved for Qui
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>IMO this is a missing feature in Python. However, if the block of code
>you are wanting to comment out doesn't happen to contain any
>triple-quote
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:36:06 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>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 bo
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:12:01 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> john peter wrote:
>> is there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing
>> the '#' character to the start of each statement i do not
>> want to execute (which gets old very quickly if one needs to
>> comment and uncomment several
john peter wrote:
> is there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing
> the '#' character to the start of each statement i do not
> want to execute (which gets old very quickly if one needs to
> comment and uncomment several statements a couple of
> times while "playing around with code
john peter wrote:
> in java, i can prevent a block of code from executing
> by bracketing the block with comment indicators, as shown
> below:
> /*
> statement1 will not execute;
> statement2 will not execute;
> */
> statement3 will execute
>
> is there a similar mechanism in python, other
in java, i can prevent a block of code from executing by bracketing the block with comment indicators, as shown below: /* statement1 will not execute; statement2 will not execute; */ statement3 will executeis there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing the '#' char
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