From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Commenting out TeX-text line by line in V-mode Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:20:13 +0100
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > a question more driven by curiosity than by the need to change > > anything. > > > > > > Suppose you have the following TeX-text: > > > > bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > foo bar gnu gnats > > bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > > > bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > foo bar gnu gnats > > > > bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > > > > > and because this text is so fullfilled with wisdom and knowledge, > > that no one else than you will be able to handle its contents > > carefully ;) you decide to comment it out to not to harm the public. > > As a vim newbie I would do that using block oriented visual mode on > > the first line and I-nserting a '%' (TeX's comment sign), which > > results in: > > > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > % foo bar gnu gnats > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > % > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > % foo bar gnu gnats > > % > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > > > > > So far so nice...it works. > > > > But would be there a way to acchieve the following commenting: > > > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > % foo bar gnu gnats > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla > > % foo bar gnu gnats > > > > % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats > > > > (blank lines not commented out) by a similiar simple command like > > CTRL-v SHIFT-i <text><ESC> ? > > > > As said: This Q is mostly curiosity - based...I even dont know, > > whether haveing such a feature would be really useful or not. > > > > But as always: Experimenting is fun! :O) > > > > Keep editing! > > mcc > > > > > > 1. Add all percent signs like you did above, even before blank lines. > 2. Replace empty comments by blank (i.e. empty) lines as follows: > > :%s/^%\s*$// > > > Best regards, > Tony. > Hi Tony, yes...I know that (which is an exception... ;) I thought there would be one command to achieve the same effect instead of """doing it the wrong way""" first and the """correct it""" by an additional command... Keep editing! mcc
