Tool to Comentent lines fail and can be more elegant

[osergioabreu]

The tool to comment/uncomment Lines could be more elegant, adding all the # to the BEGINNING of lines!
And I saw a bug, it failing today, couldn't uncomment had to use REPLACE tool.
Works well to comment, but to uncomment, FAILED.

      My suggestion is like this:
     Nowadays            |         Desired
     ----------------------------------------------------
     # code                    #        code
          # code               #              code 
           # code              #              code

[JohnCC330]

You did not mention which language you were working in. From the '#', I suspect it was Python.

Note that uncommenting with ^E only works if the line was commented with the same command.
By default, Geany comments with '# ~ ' (you can change that in Preferences | Editor | Toggle comment marker).
Take care with the ' ' (space) at the end of that field - it's there! Of course '#' is implied - that depends on Python.

So, if you comment with ^E, it inserts '# ~ '. If you try to uncomment, that will only work if it finds
'# ~ ' in the line(s).

About the comment formatting - That is a question of taste, I'm afraid...

[elextr]

Since nobody has asked for this formatting before (@osergioabreu you did search for existing open or closed issues before you raised this didn't you? 😁) users either don't care because they only use it to temporarily comment out code and will remove it quickly, or they like it like that.

So if "somebody" made a pull request which made the formatting an option it likely would be accepted so both tastes are accommodated.

Or it was put in a plugin (if it isn't in one already?)

@JohnCC330 wrote:

Of course '#' is implied - that depends on Python.

Specifically it is the single line comment setting in the filetype file for the filetype.