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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > IDE Of Choice
 
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Volte
Oct 4, 2004

woosh woosh

KernelSlanders posted:

Intellij does "/" for comment and uncomment, and it really pisses me off. For your code fragment, it would comment that including double commenting the already commented lines.
That seems like the correct action to me. A toggle-able commenting action should be fairly trivially invertible. If you select a block of code and use the comment toggle, it should make a best-effort attempt to comment it out in the way that makes the most practical sense and can be immediately reversed by invoking the command again. To me, that means commenting the entire block out unless every line is already commented out, in which case uncomment. It doesn't nail every use case but in most cases that's what I would want. If you want a command that uncomments all commented lines within a selection, that's an uninvertible command and I feel like it should be a separate thing from the usual 'toggle comment' command.

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