multiline comments

[Edward Elliott]

Ben Finney wrote:
> And/or switch to an editor that can perform editing operations on a
> range of lines.

I'm not unsympathetic to this point of view, as I would feel hamstrung 
without my vim.  It's more that I object to the paternalism of telling 
people they have to use such an editor.  There are times when notepad is 
all that's available.

On top of that, the expressive power of nested comments seems greater than 
an endless string of ^#s.  Sometimes it's just easier to see what's going on.