Re: st: comment out a number of lines together

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

On what computer operating system, what text editor?  If you are on a  
macintosh, get BBEdit o the free TextWrangler (barebones.com) and  
see: http://dataninja.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/unified-generic- 
commentuncomment-scripts/

The comments there are "// " but you can easily change it to "*"

-Steve
On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Paul O'Brien 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?
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