I was thinking of writing a lisp function that does something like (comment-dwim) (ess-eval-region) (comment-dwim) or maybe something along the lines of eval-line-and-step, but which removes leading comment symbols. Kevin On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > Does highlighting a region and then > M-; > do what you want? > > > M-; runs the command comment-dwim, which is an interactive compiled > Lisp function in `newcomment.el'. > > > Rich > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Kevin Wright wrote: > >> When I write scripts for analyzing data, I often comment out lines of >> code. >> For example I might have something like: >> >> dat=read.csv() >> plot(y~x, data) # check for outliers >> >> Once I've made the plot, I don't want to make it again, so I'll comment it >> out. And then my client sends me a revision of the data and I'll want to >> check it again, so I uncomment the plot statement and then evaluate it, >> and >> then comment the line again. >> >> It occurred to me today that it would be handy to have a key-combination >> similar to ess-eval-* that removes comment characters before sending the >> code line/block/paragraph to the inferior ess process. >> >> Has anyone written code to this? >> >> Kevin Wright >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help >> > > -- Kevin Wright [[alternative HTML version deleted]]