Block Comment

[dougrilee]

Has anyone written a macro that will perform a block comment on a section of highlighted code.

ex.
if(something)
{
dothis++;
}

if(something)
{
dothis++;
}

/** if(something) **/
** { **
** dothis++; **
** } **/

Well, the comments would line up but its not working so well in the forum editor. You can get the idea though.

Thank you for any help or ideas.

Doug

[Mofi]

Do you know about Edit - Comment Add and Comment Remove, which can also be assigned to hotkeys. This will add or remove a line comment on each selected line. Ok, it is not a block comment, but the result is the same.

To temporary remove a C code section I normally use
#ifdef TRASH
Code
#endif

TRASH is not defined and so the code is ignored during compilation. I like this more, because the removed section is still highlighted normally, which is a big advantage, if I have to look at it again. Second advantage is, that I can simply search for this "comments" before creating a release version, to check, if I can delete it now or I have forgotten something to change back for the release version.

Edited on 2010-03-02: Starting with UltraEdit v16.00 there are the commands Edit - Comment Selection and Edit - Uncomment Selection to insert/remove block comment on/off strings on the current selection.