Description Damien Decremer 2012-09-25 06:40:11 EDT

I'm used to comment/uncomment lines as in Kwrite or Kate in KDE or even in Matlab. That is, in several "layers".

For example, fortran code can look like this:
print *,hello
!print *,hellu
print *,hello
!!print *,hella
!!!!print *,helli

If I select all the lines and uncomment them, it should look like this:
print *,hello
print *,hellu
print *,hello
!print *,hella
!!!print *,helli
From here, commenting lines should simply put a single ! in front of each line again.

Instead, because only the so-called "Photran Block Comment" function is available, which is just a toggling comment command, I end up with this:
!print *,hello
print *,hellu
!print *,hello
!print *,hella
!!!print *,helli

Using the same Photran Block comment on all lines again results in this:
print *,hello
!print *,hellu
print *,hello
print *,hella
!!print *,helli

Using it again subsequently ends up cycling between
!print *,hello
print *,hellu
!print *,hello
!print *,hella
!print *,helli

and
print *,hello
!print *,hellu
print *,hello
print *,hella
print *,helli
It ends up eating all my layers of !

I find toggling comments in eclipse extremely user-UNfriendly! 
I see a lot of comment/uncomment commands in "keys" in preferences, but only the bindings to Photran Block Comment has an effect.

Comment/Uncommenting as in Kwrite, Kate or Matlab is very useful when quickly disabling parts of code, but still keeping those parts ready to reactivate. For example in trial and error coding (which is very useful when coding in Fortran).

I use the Photran editor the most and the comment/uncomment functions work fine in C++ editor.  Would it be possible to integrate these functions in Photran editor too?


I found a workaround for now: I have to shift code left or right first before toggling comments. It is extremely annoying because shifting code is very slow. That is, it takes 4 seconds to shift 1 indentation distance.  Somehow, shifting codes seems to suck up memory.  This is not good when trying to code fast!
In addition, I have to use two series of shortcuts, which I'd rather avoid.


Thanks in advance,
Damien