Sorry guys didn't mean to upset anyone, I did read the whole thread and I was unaware of the feature being implemented on the development version as I use the stable 2.14 on my lenny distro.
Regards, Dimitris On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Stephen Bungay <sbun...@csolve.net> wrote: > Yeah, I see what you mean, that would be handy for pasting blocks of > text in without the IDE mangling it. I see your point. > > Ron wrote: > > Stephen Bungay wrote: > >> I made up a standard comment block a long time ago as a text file, I > >> simply paste it in and modify/add to it as needed. Yes you have to put > >> the ' at the start of every new comment line, but IMHO that is no big > deal. > >> > >> Steve. > >> > >> > > > > Yeah but the the damage is already done then. > > What I was trying to explain was, if you paste a text like this into the > > editor: > > > > --- > > This is some text with debug information > > and is just used to explain my point. > > And there should be a bunch more lines below this one with preserved > > words in them. > > --- > > > > It becomes this, even before you have a chance to comment it: > > > > --- > > This IS some text WITH DEBUG information > > AND IS just used TO explain my point. > > AND there should be a bunch more lines below this one WITH preserved > > words IN them. > > --- > > > > Even if you arrange enough blank lines with a ' in front before you > > paste it over them. You get this: > > > > --- > > 'This is some text with debug information > > AND IS just used TO explain my point. > > AND there should be a bunch more lines below this one WITH preserved > > words IN them. > > ' > > ' > > --- > > > > That wouldn't be the case if you can put an /* > > and */ and can paste between those. > > Can't explain it any more clearer than this. > > > > Too bad it's a lot of work to implement. > > > > Regards, > > Ron_2nd. > >> Ron wrote: > >> > >>> But.. sometimes you want to paste some lines of text as comment into > your > >>> code. If you do this your way the text gets parsed/changed as soon as > you > >>> paste it. Before you get the change to mark it as comment.It would be > nice > >>> if you can type /* and */ and paste the stuff between it so the editor > >>> leaves it untouched. That's my reason for having a more clever way of > >>> marking a comment block. > >>> Regards, > >>> Ron_2nd. > >>> > >>> --- > >>> this e-mail is sent with my android phone. > >>> > >>> > >>>> Highlight the block of code you want to comment out.... then click > > the > >>>> > >>> little comment icon i... > >>> Yes but no: many times I have to comment/decomment many parts of a > single > >>> block, with C comment you can see where you are instantly otherwise you > >>> must re-read each line. > >>> > >>> But thanks anyway :) > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full > prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > _______________________________________________ > > Gambas-user mailing list > > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user