[ESS] ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?

[Paul Burkander]

wow that works very well - thank you! And I'm glad to have learned
about C-c C-c, which will definitely be a time saver.

Paul

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is solved in the development versions (both svn and git).
>
> C-c C-c now skips the comments before evaluation, as it should be. C-c
> C-r (ess-eval-region) now removes oneline comments (both "//" and "/*")
> before sending code to process.
>
> Please try and let me know if it works for you.
>
> Best,
> Vitalie.
>
>   >> Paul Burkander <paul at burkander.com>
>   >> on Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:13:25 -0400 wrote:
>
>   > Stata supports multi-line comments, as in your first example, but I
>   > habitually don't use them; my code follows your second example.  For
>   > me and my lack of lisp it's not so simple to pass a line over.  Can
>   > you suggest a quick fix?
>
>   > I didn't know about C-c C-c - by the function name it looks useful,
>   > but I get the following error:
>   > ess-beginning-of-function: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times]
>
>   > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >>
>   >> >> Paul Burkander <paul at burkander.com>
>   >> >> on Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:20:04 -0400 wrote:
>   >>
>   >> > Is there a way to make ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?
>   >> > If I have the following code as my region:
>   >>
>   >> > /* foo */
>   >> > di "bar"
>   >>
>   >> > I get
>   >> > . /* foo */
>   >> > unrecognized command:  / invalid command name
>   >> > r(199);
>   >>
>   >> > .
>   >> > . di "bar"
>   >> > bar
>   >>
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> But C-c C-c skips comments right? This should be the default.
>   >>
>   >> With ess-eval-region is a bit trickier. It's pretty easy to remove one
>   >> liner, but considerably much more difficult to get rid of multiline
>   >> comments.
>   >>
>   >> Does stata support multilne comments? That is,  doe you need
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> /* foo
>   >> zoo
>   >> */
>   >>
>   >> di "bar"
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> or, just handling
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> /* foo */
>   >> /* zoo */
>   >>
>   >> di "bar"
>   >>
>   >> would be enough?
>   >>
>   >> Vitalie.
>   >>
>   >> > Which isn't terrible, since it at least gets to the display command.
>   >> > However, if the comment is in a loop, it breaks the loop.  Is there
>   >> > any way to make ESS skip the commented line?
>   >>
>   >> > Thanks!
>   >>
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