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Re: st: comment out a number of lines together


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: comment out a number of lines together
Date   Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:38:41 +0100 (BST)

--- Paul O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote:

> at times i need to comment out a number of lines, usually with * and 
> remove the * later to activate the commands.
> is there a simple way to remove and add the * to a number of line at 
> one go?

One way to comment out a block of code is to surround them with /* and
*/ this way you have to remove only these two. 

-- Maarten

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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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