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Alan Stone

2 Jul 2008 2 Jul '08

3:05 p.m.

Hi, Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer... How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? Alan

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Andrea Valle

2 Jul 2 Jul

3:08 p.m.

AFAIK it is not possible direclty. I've asked it once. Should be in archive Best -a- On 2 Jul 2008, at 15:05, Alan Stone wrote:

Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ?

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Martin Schröder

3:11 p.m.

2008/7/2 Alan Stone :

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ?

\iffalse \fi Best Martin

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Wolfgang Schuster

3:11 p.m.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Alan Stone wrote:

Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ?

\starthiding ... \stophiding Regards Wolfgang

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Henning Hraban Ramm

3 Jul 3 Jul

1:20 p.m.

\starthiding ... \stophiding

Ah, never seen that. Myself I normally use \startmode[obsolete] % or the like \stopmode Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Hans van der Meer

2 Jul 2 Jul

3:14 p.m.

In ConTeXt you should be able to say: \starthiding -- this stuff will not be processed -- \stophiding Hans van der Meer On 2 jul 2008, at 15:05, Alan Stone wrote:

Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ?

Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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Diego Depaoli

3:55 p.m.

2008/7/2 Alan Stone :

Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? in vim :A,Bs/^/% A=start line B=end line

-- Diego Depaoli

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Pau

3 Jul 3 Jul

9:07 a.m.

in vim(rc): function! CommentTeX() map - :s/^/% /<CR>:nohlsearch<CR> map _ :s/^\s*% \=//<CR>:nohlsearch<CR> set comments=:% endfunction autocmd FileType tex call CommentTeX() This way, in visual you select the part of the document you want to comment, then press - and, voila, you get a % in fornt of every line. To uncomment, press _ 2008/7/2 Diego Depaoli :

2008/7/2 Alan Stone :

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Hi,

Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer...

How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? in vim :A,Bs/^/% A=start line B=end line

-- Diego Depaoli ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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Hans van der Meer
Henning Hraban Ramm
Martin Schröder
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Wolfgang Schuster