I wish you could comment code not only by asterisks in column 7, but so from-to:
* / This indicates where it is not considered code and ...
/ * ... This indicates that ends on neutral code
This will avoid having to put asterisks in column 7 when there are many lines to comment.
Thanks.
#RMCOBOLWhile not a feature of the CodeWatch editor, you could use Notepad (free), which has the capability of doing multi-line edits. In Notepad , one uses Alt Shift while making a selection to select a rectangle for multi-line edits. Characters typed affect all lines in the rectangle. The rectangle can be zero columns wide, in which case characters typed are inserted in all lines. [I usually use *> (tail comment) in column 8 or 12 instead of column 7. Personal preference - I like the look.)
May not be the absolute ideal, but Notepad is easy and free. And, with a wide variety of plugins, Notepad is useful in many situations. I use it for side-by-side file comparison (diff), XML editing (including running XML transforms), looking at files in hex, seeing exact representations of whitespace characters, etc
I wish you could comment code not only by asterisks in column 7, but so from-to:
* / This indicates where it is not considered code and ...
/ * ... This indicates that ends on neutral code
This will avoid having to put asterisks in column 7 when there are many lines to comment.
Thanks.
#RMCOBOLYes, ok with Notepad , but I insist that the feature must be considered by Micro Focus in its editors. Thanks for the answer, Tom.