Is block comment working for anyone?

[tomasrei]

Hi! Just wondering if anyone is having issues with block comments (Shift+Alt+a)?

Nothing happens when I press it.

[juliasilge]

Is this for R? I believe both R and Python only support single line comments, right? What were you hoping to see in terms of a block comment?

[tomasrei]

In RStudio, you can press Ctrl + Shift + C to comment all highlighted lines. This is useful if you want to prevent some code from running without actually deleting it. Is this not what Toggle Block Comment is supposed to do?

[tomasrei]

*Correct, R.

[snestler]

Try the VS Code keyboard shortcut for this: CTRL + / (or CMD + / on Mac).That is what works in Positron too, when you have multiple lines highlighted. Works in R or Python.

[juliasilge]

Ah OK, you might check out this section on Wikipedia to learn about block and line comments.

This is a block comment:

/*
 * My great comment!
 */

This is three line comments:

# 
# My great comment!
#

R only has line comments, not block comments. You might try out using the Toggle Line Comment command for the behavior you are looking for to comment selected lines. You can use the built in keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+/., or you can opt in to RStudio keybindings and then use Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C.