Possible to Automatically Comment Blocks of Syntax?

[Moser, Gary-2]

Hi List,

 

I spend a lot of time commenting out large blocks of text I imbed in my syntax headers (e-mail correspondence, pasted text from digital sources, user instructions, and development notes), and I would love to be able to highlight an entire block of text in the syntax editor and then execute a script that would comment out everything in the selection. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

 

Thank you,

 

Gary

 

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[Reutter, Alex]

In Statistics 17 and later, select the text you want to comment out, then choose Tools > Comment Selection from the menus. 

 

Cheers,

Alex

 

 

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Subject: Possible to Automatically Comment Blocks of Syntax?

 

Hi List,

 

I spend a lot of time commenting out large blocks of text I imbed in my syntax headers (e-mail correspondence, pasted text from digital sources, user instructions, and development notes), and I would love to be able to highlight an entire block of text in the syntax editor and then execute a script that would comment out everything in the selection. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

 

Thank you,

 

Gary

 

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[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

Just in case you have a lower Spss version: Paste your comments into Excel, then refer to them as e.g. "* "&A1&" .", then CTRL-C for all lines.

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan


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> would comment out everything in the selection. Any ideas on
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[djhurio]

Unfortunately there is not "Uncomment section" command :(

Martins

Reutter, Alex wrote

In Statistics 17 and later, select the text you want to comment out, then choose Tools > Comment Selection from the menus.  

 

Cheers,

Alex

 

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Moser, Gary
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:56 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Possible to Automatically Comment Blocks of Syntax?

 

Hi List,

 

I spend a lot of time commenting out large blocks of text I imbed in my syntax headers (e-mail correspondence, pasted text from digital sources, user instructions, and development notes), and I would love to be able to highlight an entire block of text in the syntax editor and then execute a script that would comment out everything in the selection. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

 

Thank you,

 

Gary

 


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[Reutter, Alex]

Good point.  Uncommenting a few statistical procedures by hand is fairly painless, but uncommenting a series of data manipulation commands is not fun.  Some things I've tried to ease that pain (YMMV depending upon your situation):

* if you're commenting/uncommenting as part of debugging, you could try breakpoints -- there's a section on breakpoints under "Working with Command Syntax / Using the Syntax Editor" in the help

* if the section of code can be reused elsewhere, break it out into a separate syntax file and use INSERT to call it -- there's now only one line to comment/uncomment

* if the code isn't reusable, but you'll often be commenting/uncommenting it depending upon the analysis, you could encase it within a DO IF and make the condition depend upon a variable whose value is set at the top of the syntax file -- now you don't even need to navigate to section(s) of the file you want to comment/uncomment

Cheers,
Alex


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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Martins Liberts
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Possible to Automatically Comment Blocks of Syntax?

Unfortunately there is not "Uncomment section" command :(

Martins



Reutter, Alex wrote:

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> In Statistics 17 and later, select the text you want to comment out, then
> choose Tools > Comment Selection from the menus.
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> Cheers,
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> Alex
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> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> Moser, Gary
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:56 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Possible to Automatically Comment Blocks of Syntax?
>
>
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> Hi List,
>
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>
> I spend a lot of time commenting out large blocks of text I imbed in my
> syntax headers (e-mail correspondence, pasted text from digital sources,
> user instructions, and development notes), and I would love to be able to
> highlight an entire block of text in the syntax editor and then execute a
> script that would comment out everything in the selection. Any ideas on
> how to accomplish this?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: This communication may contain Heald College confidential and
> proprietary data. This message is intended only for the personal and
> confidential use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not
> the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any
> review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly
> prohibited. In addition, if you have received this message in error,
> please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message.
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