PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

re: PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

Bernd Kriszio — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:01:46 GMT

Hello Jeffrey,

attention, block comments do not nest. Included block ends must be escaped or the first one would finish the comment prematurely.

In http://pauerschell.blogspot.com/2008/12/ise-blockcomment-blockuncomment-custom.html I show a function that works this way.

The ways for escape are not unique. Perhaps it would help, if you propose some convention. This moment I prefer `#> .

By the way many thanks for the excellent syntax coloring in ISE.

Happy new year

Bernd

bkriszio@googlemail.com

re: PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

Andy Schneider — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:55:13 GMT

Hi Bernd, good to see you over here. I was just going to mention I had come up with roughly the same thing at http://get-powershell.com/2008/12/29/ise-comment-out-a-block-of-text/ and that you had mentioned you didn't like the multi-line quote. It's a small world :)

re: PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

BooRadley — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:28:28 GMT

Wicked cool, I've been wanting this.

re: PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

PowerShellTeam — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:02:20 GMT

> Wicked cool

What are you from Mass?

Wait .. no... that would have been "wicked pissa cool" - never mind.

:-)

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

Windows Management Partner Architect

Graduate of Chelmsford (Mass) High School

re: PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

David Mohundro — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:20:25 GMT

Building on Bernd Kriszio's comment here and at Andy's blog, here's a Toggle Commenting menu item (with Ctrl+/ being the hotkey):

function ISE-CommentSelectedText {

$text = $psise.CurrentOpenedFile.editor.SelectedText

$lines = $text.Split("`n") | %{

$_ -replace "^", "# "

}

if ($lines[$lines.count -1] -eq "# ") {

$lines[$lines.count -1] = ""

}

$text = [string]::join("`n", $lines)

$psise.CurrentOpenedFile.editor.InsertText($text)

}

function ISE-UncommentSelectedText {

$text = $psise.CurrentOpenedFile.editor.SelectedText

$lines = $text.Split("`n") | %{

$_ -replace "^ *# *", ""

}

$text = [string]::join("`n", $lines)

$psise.CurrentOpenedFile.editor.InsertText($text)

}

function ISE-ToggleCommenting {

if ($psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor.SelectedText.StartsWith('#')) {

ISE-UncommentSelectedText

}

else {

ISE-CommentSelectedText

}

$psISE.CustomMenu.Submenus.Add('Comment/Uncomment', {ISE-ToggleCommenting}, "Ctrl+Oem2")