Nested comments

Zoe · Post by **Zoe** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:14 pm

I have some code which has nested comments. By this, I mean the following (where block comments are /* */)

/*

/*description*/

code follows here
code follows here
code follows here
code follows here

*/

The way I have it set up at the moment, Zeus thinks that the comment ends at the end of line 2 (after "description") and so all the code following this is not in the format that I've reserved for comments.

So far, all I have done is enter /* in "comment start" and */ in "comment end" under the keyword options tab.

Is this something I just have to live with or is there a way round it?

Thanks

Post by **jussij** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:41 pm

The way I have it set up at the moment, Zeus thinks that the comment ends at the end of line 2

Can you tell me which which language are you running

The reason I ask is that for C/C++ the comment does in fact end at line 2 in which case Zeus gets it right

Cheers Jussi

Zoe · Post by **Zoe** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:23 am

Hi,

I use a program called Stata (which is a statistical analysis package) and it's the language used for that.

In this language, the comment defintely ends in the final line

Not to worry, I can live with it.

Zoe · Post by **Zoe** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:30 am

I have just been discussing this with a C++ programmer and he couldn't understand (at first - I did manage to convice him

) why I would want to do what I am doing and why I didn't just change the code to:

/*description*/

/*
code follows here
code follows here
code follows here
code follows here

*/

So that you don't think I'm totally dumb

, the code that I actually have is more like this:

/*

/*description of code*/

code

/*more description of code*/

more code

/*even more description of code*/

even more code

*/

And in total there are many lines of code. I only need to temporarily comment out this code (because the program will run without it and it takes a long time) so I don't want to have to comment out each block of code separately.

Stata understands nested comments (thankfully) but I often lose where comments start and end which is why grey text is useful.

Post by **jussij** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:20 am

Not to worry, I can live with it.

It think it should still be possible to add this feature

The only reason I asked the question was more out of curiosity and to also make sure I fully understand the issue involved

Cheers Jussi

Zoe · Post by **Zoe** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:22 pm

Thanks

Would be great if this feature was added.

Post by **jussij** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:05 pm

This feature has now been added to Zeus

You can get this feature by downloading the latest Zeus patch found here:

http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1000

To enable the feature go to the Keywords section of the Document Type and enable the Nested Comments option.

Cheers Jussi

Zoe · Post by **Zoe** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:51 pm

Wow, thanks. That's fantastic.