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[John J. Lee]

Doug Tolton <dtolton at yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> How do you comment the block of text with Emacs?  That is what I'm
> using for my code editor.

C-c #

I use C-x r k to uncomment (kill-rectangle), but I'm sure there must
be an uncomment-region in there somewhere...


> I was wondering if a triple-quoted string not assigned would work, but
> I hadn't got arround to trying it yet.

The only trouble with TCSs is that emacs gets confused more easily
than with '## ' multiline-comments.  And recent CVS python-modes have
had broken docstring fill (still broken, actually, whitespace gets
collapsed sometimes... must file a bug).


John