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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:41:07 +0000
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On 21/03/2024 19:23, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:
> [...]
>> And sometimes, when it's not a really a comment, but rather a block of
>> code I don't want right now:
>>
>> #ifdef 0
>> ...
>> #endif
> 
> I think you mean "#if 0".

Yes I did :)

> 
> I use that sometimes, but one disadvantage is that if you're viewing the
> middle of a very large block of code, it can be hard to tell that it's
> been "commented" out.
> 
> I have a script that applies "#if 0" and "#endif" to a block of code
> *and* prepends "* " to each line in the block.
> 

That's a good ideo.  Can you share it?