[R] Block comments in R?

[Stefano Calza]

And of course in emacs you can select the region to comment then hit 
Ctrl-x r t and type #: all the lines in that region will have a # at the 
beginnig

To uncomment Ctrl-x r d

Stefano


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:05:52PM -0400, Jim Lemon wrote:
<Jim>And of course for NEdit, all one needs to do is select:
<Jim>
<Jim>Preferences | Default Settings | Customize menus | Macro Menu
<Jim>
<Jim>Then select the "New" option at the top of the menu list,
<Jim>
<Jim>Give it a name (I call this r_comment),
<Jim>
<Jim>Enter the following code:
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<Jim>replace_in_selection("^","#","regex")
<Jim>
<Jim>click on "Apply" and then "OK"
<Jim>
<Jim>You will have an item named "r_comment" on your macro menu
<Jim>
<Jim>Simply select the area you wish to comment out and run the macro.
<Jim>
<Jim>To remove comments, you can program another macro (r_nocomment)
<Jim>
<Jim>replace_in_selection("#","")
<Jim>
<Jim>You can give both of these a keystroke invocation if you wish.
<Jim>
<Jim>Happy commenting!
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