how to comment several lines at once ?

how to comment several lines at once ?

[Alan Stone]

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Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line
with the % sign ?

Alan

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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Andrea Valle]

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AFAIK it is not possible direclty. I've asked it once. Should be in  
archive

Best

-a-

On 2 Jul 2008, at 15:05, Alan Stone wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...
>
> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each  
> line with the % sign ?
>
> Alan
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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Martin Schröder]

2008/7/2 Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>:
> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line
> with the % sign ?

\iffalse
\fi

Best
   Martin
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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Alan Stone
<software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...
>
> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line
> with the % sign ?

\starthiding
...
\stophiding

Regards
Wolfgang
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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Hans van der Meer]

In ConTeXt you should be able to say:

\starthiding
-- this stuff will not be processed --
\stophiding

Hans van der Meer




On 2 jul 2008, at 15:05, Alan Stone wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...
>
> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each  
> line with the % sign ?
>
> Alan
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> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an  
> entry to the Wiki!
>
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> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
> ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Diego Depaoli]

2008/7/2 Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...
>
> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line
> with the % sign ?
in vim
:A,Bs/^/%
A=start line
B=end line

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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Pau]

in vim(rc):

function! CommentTeX()
  map - :s/^/% /<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
  map _ :s/^\s*% \=//<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
  set comments=:%
endfunction

autocmd FileType tex       call CommentTeX()

This way, in visual you select the part of the document you want to
comment, then press -
and, voila, you get a % in fornt of every line. To uncomment, press _

2008/7/2 Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/2 Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...
>>
>> How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line
>> with the % sign ?
> in vim
> :A,Bs/^/%
> A=start line
> B=end line
>
> --
> Diego Depaoli
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Re: how to comment several lines at once ?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

>
> \starthiding
> ...
> \stophiding


Ah, never seen that.
Myself I normally use

\startmode[obsolete] % or the like

\stopmode


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