Re: Commenting out lines

[Jonathan Stickel]

Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
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> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
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> | Is there something I can add to ~/.emacs to have "comment-region" and
> | "uncomment-region" in my menu bar?  For c++-mode, these are in the c++
> | pull down menu.  I'd like them in the octave pull-down menu when I am in
> | octave-mode.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Jonathan
> |
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> I think that you just need to add a couple of lines to octave-mod.el:
>
> *** /usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/progmodes/octave-mod.el    Tue Sep  9
> 22:42:15 2003
> - --- /tmp/newoctave-mode.el    Tue Aug  3 19:24:06 2004
> ***************
> *** 240,245 ****
> - --- 240,248 ----
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> ~  (defvar octave-mode-menu
> ~    (list "Octave"
> +     (list "Comments"
> +           ["Comment out region"    octave-comment-region t]
> +           ["Uncomment Region"    octave-uncomment-region t])
> ~      (list "Lines"
> ~            ["Previous Code Line"    octave-previous-code-line t]
> ~            ["Next Code Line"        octave-next-code-line t]

Awesome, thank you!  I had a little trouble, though, because I have two 
octave-mod.el files:

/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/progmodes/octave-mod.el  (provided by Emacs)
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/octave-mod.el  (provided by Octave)

Seems like the later takes precedence, so I edited that one.

Jonathan



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