A syntax element that allows multiple lines of text to be used as comments, (that is, ignored by the compiler), without having to mark each and every line separately as a comment.
Questions tagged [block-comments]
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Best way to add comments in erb
How do we add comments in erb files, if we do not want them to be generated into the html content?
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How do I comment in CoffeeScript? "/* this */" doesn't work
In what ways can you comment in CoffeeScript?
The documentation say you can use three hash symbols to start and close a comment block:
###
Comments
go
here
###
I've found that I can sometimes use the following two formats
`// backticks allow…
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Block comments in html.erb templates in rails
How do you comment out html mixed with ruby code?
some text <% ... %> more text <%= ... %>
something else
<% ... %>
In jsp it's real simple: <%-- ... --%>, but I'm unable to find any concise option in rails.
Simple html comments do…
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Block commenting in Ruby
Does Ruby have block comments?
If not, is there an efficient way of inserting # in front of a block of highlighted code in TextMate?
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How do you make a block comment in SVG
I'm trying to learn SVG for the first time but the code seems to have an issue with my block comments. I'm using:
/* This is my
* block comment
*/
And when I run my code, I get the following error:
'return' statement outside of function
line:…
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Keyboard shortcut for Visual c# block comment in Visual Studio 2015?
I know there is keyboard shortcut for single line(//....)
commenting Ctrl + K + C and uncommenting Ctrl + K + U .
My question is that, is there any default keyboard shortcut for block (/* ...... */) commenting and uncommenting? If yes how?
And If…
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Lack of block comments in VB .NET?
Just a question of interest: Does anyone know why there's no block comment capability in VB .NET? (Unless there really is - but I've never yet come across it.)
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How does one comment in an erb template?
I have some trivial markup that looks like the following:
<=% t'model.attr' %>
Is there a trivial way to comment that out? Just wrapping around the block will still leave the ruby code available to the…
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Block Comments in Logstash Config file
I am just getting started with Logstash and wondering whether there is a way to specify block comments in logstash config file?
It will be very useful as I am testing with long grok patterns which span multiple lines.
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Android Studio: Block comment style
Block comment style in Eclipse (write /* and press Enter)
/*
* Hello World
*/
Block comment style in Android Studio
/*
Hello World
*/
How can I make my Android Studio block comments look like the one in Eclipse? Couldn't find anything in…
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Including */ in a C-style block comment
Is there any way to include */ in a C-style block comment? Changing the block comment to a series of line comments (//) is not an option in this case.
Here's an example of the sort of comment causing a problem:
/**
* perl -pe 's/(?<=.{6}).*//g' :…
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How do I stop Visual Studio 2019 from automatically inserting asterisk during a block comment in C++?
When using Visual Studio 2019, when I hit enter within a block comment in a C++ file it adds a leading * . I've found a solution to this problem for C# at How do I stop Visual Studio from automatically inserting asterisk during a block comment? but…
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Eclipse: comment entire code without it getting cut short by another comment
Say I have the following code (in C++, but that's probably not important to the question):
int main() {
....random code....
/*This is a comment*/
....random code....
return 0;
}
In eclipse, when I want to comment out the entire code…
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JavaDoc: Reduce redundancy for Repeated Method Descriptions within the Same Class
For example, i have two methods, public Tree addChild(final T data) {} and public Tree addChild(final T... data) {}, their JavaDocs are identical. How to put the /** method description */ in one of them, and use a tag to refer another JavaDoc…
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