Block commenting in Gedit?

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Is there a way to comment out a chunk of highlighted code?

I am programming in ruby, and I hate putting # on lines individually.

Ugh, all the suggestions to use block commenting miss the point, IMO: not as easy or intuitive. IMO. — Dave Newton, Oct 04 '11 at 15:10

score 126 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:54

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1.Install gedit plugins

 sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

2.Go to Edit->Preference->Plugins-> and enable Code Comment

3.Ctl+m to comment block of codes

4.Ctl+Shift+m to uncomment block of codes

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:54

Soundar Rathinasamy

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I appreciate this answer because some languages don't have multiline comment support; this makes life much easier! – Dylan Knowles Feb 08 '13 at 18:01
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worked for me for `c++` by inserting `//`,, no clue if that's the comment for Ruby, or if gedit looks at the file extension (`.cpp` in my case) and chooses the comment characters accordingly. – yano Jan 06 '18 at 01:56
Unfortunately, the plugin seems to have been discontinued. – Ricardo Magalhães Cruz Mar 02 '18 at 12:29
Just installed it today, this is perfect. And the size changer one is useful too. – Apollys supports Monica Jun 12 '19 at 22:29

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:46

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Ruby has block commenting...

=begin
    Insert comment here
=end

This will avoid the need to add # to each line... However, I don't think Gedit will convert highlighted code into commented lines by default.

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:46

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drugan · Answer 3 · 2015-04-03T21:49:46.300

Code Comment plugin obviously is a good one for # (hash) style commenting but what if you need comment out php code block with double // slashes or any other custom commenting style? For example, with one or two whitespaces added after the comment symbol.

Go to Edit->Preferences->Plugins-> and enable External Tools plugin.
Go to Tools->Manage External Tools.
Under the Tools side bar click add (+) sign, call your new tool "Comment out" and add this code into the Edit field:

#!/bin/bash

# comment out current selection

# comment style

comment="// "

xargs -i -d\\\n echo $comment{}
Set up your tool.

Shortcut Key: Alt+/ (put the cursor in the field and press Alt+/ or any other keys)

Save: Nothing

Input: Current selection (default to document)

Output: Replace current selection

Applicability: All documents? All languages? (change if you need)

To uncomment commented block of code do the same things except below ones.

Name of the Tool: "Uncomment".
Shortcut Key: Alt+Backspace
Code to insert into the Edit field:

#!/bin/bash

# uncomment current selection

# comment symbols to remove

uncomment="^\/\/ "

xargs -i -d\\\n echo {} | sed -ne "s/$uncomment//p"

Change comment/uncomment variable value (double slashes and space) with your desired commenting style.

Enjoy.

This is awesome! Thanks for the recipe! Highly recommend to any gedit users out there. — gariepy, Dec 15 '15 at 21:33

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

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Just use a multi-line comment.

Example:

=begin
Anything between a line consisting only of =begin
and a line consisting only of =end
is treated as a comment.
=end

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

Dennis

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:43

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=begin

Code to be commented out

=end

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:43

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

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Looks like Code Comment plugin would do it? http://live.gnome.org/GeditPlugins

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

Widor

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fl00r · Answer 7 · 2012-06-13T18:39:42.993

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You should try gmate! It is a package of cool plugins for Ruby (and not only Ruby) developement under gedit.

You can comment and uncomment bunch of lines like in Sublime or TextMate

edited Jun 13 '12 at 18:39

answered Jun 13 '12 at 18:32

fl00r

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

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Get the "code comment" plugin.

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:44

Dave Newton

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