[TxMt] Toggle Comment with no selection

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at uchicago.edu
Mon Nov 7 15:16:41 UTC 2005


On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Jonas Witt wrote:

> On 07.11.2005, at 15:57, peter royal wrote:
>
>> I keep hitting the 'Toggle Comment' command with no selection,  
>> expecting it to work on the current line only, but it does the  
>> whole file. I find this behavior counter-intuitive. Does anyone  
>> else? And if so, is it possible to have it changed?
>>
>
> I would like to second that request. If I want to comment  
> everything (which is rare enough), I can easily do Cmd-A Cmd-/.  
> This change of behaviour would be really useful. If Allan doesn't  
> want to change the default behaviour, maybe it would be possible to  
> add a (hidden?) option for it?
>
I think the logic behind it is that it follows the general principle  
that a command accepts as input either a selected text or, in the  
absence of selected text, the entire document.
It makes very good sense in most cases, and I consider the  
consistency in the behavior very important.
It is probably just one extra keystroke to select the line, right? I  
admit it doesn't happen often that you would want to uncomment the  
entire document.
I wouldn't object to the presence of a variable setting this behavior  
though.
But I feel it should be easy to change the command in the uncomment  
bundle to just work on the given line if there is no selection.
> Jonas
>

Haris





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