[OS X TeX] block comment

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:32 PM, George Gratzer wrote:

> I use TeXShop with the built in editor.
>
> GG
>
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Joseph C. Slater wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2005, at 12:31 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>>
>>> If I select a few lines of text in the source and comment it out,  
>>> the percent signs appear, the text turns red.
>>>
>>> If I select a many lines of text in the source and comment it  
>>> out, there is no visible change until I click, undoing the  
>>> selection.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>>>
>> Probably. But, you're not going to get very far until you tell  
>> people what editor you're using.
>> Joe

Howdy,

Assuming you are selecting lines and then using Cmd-{ (Shift-Cmd-[)  
to comment out the lines I seem to get the same behavior no matter  
how many lines I choose. A single line, multiple lines by dragging  
(remember that paragraphs are soft wrapped so they act like a single  
line), multiple lines by Shift and Up/Down Arrow, All by Cmd-A, give  
the same result: the comments marks are placed at the beginning of  
the line and everything that is a comment turns red. I assume that if  
the selection is truely huge it will take some time to propagate  
through the selection.

By the way, which version of OS X and which version of TeXShop are  
you using?

Finally, I don't mean to be (too) pushy but I'm curious; are you the  
George Gratzer who wrote the `Math Into LaTeX' book?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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