in reply to Adding '#' in the beginning of each line

This seems like a fairly pointless exercise, here's how I'd solve it: I bet someone'll tell me theres a "comment-buffer" now!

Caveat, only works on modes where emacs thinks the comment-char is "#".

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Re^2: Adding '#' in the beginning of each line
by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 16, 2006 at 09:56 UTC

    Using Komodo I'd:

    • ctrl-a
    • ctrl-3

    although that may not place the # as the first character of each line - it tends to follow indentation and will be the first non-whitespace character on each line

    Update Actually ctrl-3 does place a comment character at the start of each selected line. I was confusing the behaviour with Visual Studio which tends to follow indentation when you use ctrl-k ctrl-c.

    DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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      In /g?vim/: 
      :%s//#/

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      s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/
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Re^2: Adding '#' in the beginning of each line
by lidden (Curate) on Aug 16, 2006 at 19:29 UTC
    ctrl-x h # marks the whole buffer
    ctrl-x r t # runs the command string-rectangle. Useful when you want to insert something thats not starts a comment
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      I've not used the string-rectangle command before - thanks for a great tip in an unexpected place!
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