macro to comment block of code

[mathmax]

Hello,

I would like to have a macro that comment several lines of code like that.

Before:

Code: Select all

if(...)
  ...
endif
...

After:

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//  ...
//endif
//if(...)
//...

How to do it?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Mofi]

No need for a macro, click on Edit - Comment Add after selecting the block. If it is greyed out, your syntax highlighting language for your current file does not have a Line Comment = entry.

[mathmax]

Ok, but I think I have to write a macro for adding a block comment; I write this:

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
PerlReOn
Copy
"/*"
Paste
"*/"

But I would rather prefer to avoid to copy the selected text in the clipboard. Is there any other way to do that?
I would also uncomment the text if no text is selected and the mouse cursor is between /* and */ with the same macro. How can I do that?

[Mofi]

Add the block comment with a template as I have described at CSS add/remove comment button greyed out.

[mathmax]

Thank you. And how to uncomment a text when the mouse cursor is situated between /* and */?

[Mofi]

Here is a macro which works only on a selection without a template and automatically detects if the selected block is already a commented block (contains /* anywhere) or not.

It is not possible to restrict the search for /* to only start of the selected text. But you can use a regular expression search for "/*" with additional regular expression characters if you want to restrict it a little bit.

Disadvantage of this solution: It works only for blocks up to 30,000 bytes.

IfSel
Find "/*"
Replace All SelectText ""
IfFound
Find "*/"
Replace All SelectText ""
Else
Find "^s"
Replace "/*^s*/"
EndIf
EndIf

Here is a different solution using a user clipboard and therefore practically no length limit.

IfSel
Find "/*"
Replace All SelectText ""
IfFound
Find "*/"
Replace All SelectText ""
Else
Clipboard 9
Cut
"/*"
Paste
"*/"
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
EndIf
EndIf

[mathmax]

Ok, I've just installed UES 6.40 and it works! I'm so lucky.