Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 03:52:35 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: 8773836928@skytel.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: vi question Message-ID: <XFMail.001103035235.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <200011014727.589586540@skytel.com>
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On 01-Nov-00 8773836928@skytel.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been editing some
> Perl scripts in vi recently,
> and I find it very annoying
> that Perl cannot comment
> blocks of code, only lines.
>
localhost.dread$ perldoc -q comment
<snip>
=head2 How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
Use embedded POD to discard it:
# program is here
=for nobody
This paragraph is commented out
# program continues
=begin comment text
all of this stuff
here will be ignored
by everyone
=end comment text
=cut
This can't go just anywhere. You have to put a pod directive where
the parser is expecting a new statement, not just in the middle
of an expression or some other arbitrary yacc grammar production.
> P.S. Please cc: me, as I am not subscribed to the list with this
> account. Thanks again.
>
No doubt, looks like a pager ...
no jpegs ? pity.
Regards,
--
Don Read dread@texas.net
There are old sailors, and there are foolish
sailors; but damn few old foolish sailors.
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