Commeting out using Gedit

[goude]

I have recently discovered Gedit.
I think it's one of the best text editors out there. The only think that I'm missing is commenting out a piece of code. It doesn't seem to have such an option.

Any suggestions please?

[Lakshmipathi]

I'm also huge fan of Gedit... But i can't get your question..commmenting out code?
It has language preference setting...in those menu ..but i don't understand what you refer here as "commenting out code" ..

[goude]

Hey Lakshmipathi

You know for example when you write a Perl script in Gedit and you comment out a single line with the

#

symbol. I can't see any options to comment out more than one line.

[Dapper Dan]

I can't see any options to comment out more than one line.

As I've never had to comment out more than just a few lines, I was unaware any editor had such an option. Which ones have this?

[goude]

For example in nedit you can highlight a block of lines and then go to Macro-->Comments--> Comment or Uncomment
and it comments out all the lines without having to do it for each line seperately.

[elija]

The package gedit-plugins contains various add ons for gedit including code comment. For more useful plugins have a look at this.

You can enable plugins from the gedit preferences menu option

[goude]

Thanks a lot Elija