<div dir="ltr">In emacs, mark the region (<ctrl>-space, move to the other end) and then C-c-C-c (Ctrl-C twice) to comment out and then C-c-C-u to uncomment.<div><br></div><div>I dislike /* */ because you cannot nest them.  I like per-line, though I will admit to abusing ifdefs in C/C++ in a past life.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-mox</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:11 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lloyd@writersglen.com" target="_blank">lloyd@writersglen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Hello,</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Since it hasn't been done I'd guess a compiler constraint.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">But why doesn't Erlang have a method for commenting out a block of lines in a module without</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">having to tag every line with %?</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Or did I miss that page?</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">It would be so convenient  at times.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Thanks,</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">LRP</p>
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