Re: dissabling code segments
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- Subject: [mg115181] Re: dissabling code segments
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 04:21:13 -0500 (EST)
In Mathematica 8, select the lines to be commented or uncommented, then either use Edit menu item "Un/Comment selection" or else the equivalent hotkey Alt + / (Cmd + / on Mac). Or select the lines, right-click and then select Un/Comment from the pop-up context menu. (Ctrl + click to get context menu on Mac.) You could discover the context-menu method by searching in the Documentation Center for "comment". One of the entries is for the page "[Right-click] > Un/Comment" (ref/menuitem/UnComment). In principle, you should be able to discover the menu method (and shortcut key) from the same search: on that same page ref/menuitem/UnComment there's a More About entry "Menu Items". Click that. On the page guide/MenuItems you won't see any "Un/Comment" item. And if you click the Edit entry there, to get the page guide/EditMenu, you _ought_ to find "Un/Comment" -- but it's missing! Clearly a documentation oversight. (I just reported that to Wolfram tech support.) On 1/3/2011 3:57 AM, Eric Michielssen wrote: > Hi, > > Often, I would like to quickly disable (comment out) a few lines of my code. > Of course, I can do this by enclosing these lines as (* lines *). > > I was wondering whether I could automate this operation and its reverse > using the frontend, so that I just have to select the lines in question and > press a hotkey combination. > > Thanks! > > Eric Michielssen > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305