Feature Request: Ability to comment multiple lines in scenario editor

[FerParticipant]

Something that I would love to see implemented at some point would be the ability to comment/uncomment multiple lines in the scenario editor, similar to how most/all coding IDE’s work. I know I use a couple scenarios that repeat the same/similar blocks throughout, and I’m just going through line by line to make the adjustments

[PinHeadParticipant]

2 forward slashes will achieve your goal.

//Script – Blah Blah
//Uses the following:
//Crystals, etc

//Grid1
grid(PlanetO)

//Grid2
grid(Planet1)

[NekroParticipant]

Fer wrote:

Something that I would love to see implemented at some point would be the ability to comment/uncomment multiple lines in the scenario editor, similar to how most/all coding IDE’s work. I know I use a couple scenarios that repeat the same/similar blocks throughout, and I’m just going through line by line to make the adjustments

Yes please! Often when testing Scenarios I would like to just comment a whole Chapter or almost all of it, without deleting it, or even just have shortcut for uncomment/comment a single line. So I don’t need to type them everytime or leave a placeholder comment above so I can quickly swap, like that

//
gatherSlot(x)

PinHead wrote:

2 forward slashes will achieve your goal.

That was not the request. The request was for a possibility to have a shortcut for commenting out multiple lines at once, which does place those slashes without you typing them.

[ryannParticipant]

I know this is about adding it to miq, but just an FYI with what i do for these.

Open notepad ++

Copy the chapter over to notepad++

Press CTRL+H to bring up Find/Replace
Choose “Regular expression” option near the bottom of the dialog

Type ^ in the find what textbox (This tells it to find the start of everyline)
Type // in the replace with Textbox
Place the cursor in the first line of the file to ensure all lines are affected
Click “Replace All” button.

Copy the edited text back into Miq.

[FerParticipant]

Ryan, while that works, that is certainly a lot more effort than I would ever consider, unless the chapter/code block was massive.

I know that this would always be considered a lower priority effort, but it also has the potential to be a very minimal amount of work to do(compared to other priorities).

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