Oh $hit. They mean ctrl-k followed by ctrl-c not either one or the
other. Another worthless whatever to me. If I gotta find and do
control something twice to mark it and twice to unmark it and heck
ctrl-k and ctrl-c would probably take both hands. Darn it. I'll just
click the stupid icon on the tool bar. :(
Anyway, thanks for drumming it in my thick head. I simply hadn't
considered it'd be that complicated.
Oh, btw, I use ctrl-insert for copy and then shift-insert for paste.
It's so ingrained I had to do one and look at what my fingers are
hitting to write this. it takes one hand and I only have to move my
thumb up or down a tad to hit ctrl or shift while using my index finger
for insert. Give it a try sometime. It's a good thing. :)
R. MacDonald wrote:
Hello, cj,
<Ctrl-K><Ctrl-K> is toggling a bookmark.
<Ctrl-K><Ctrl-N> will move you to the next bookmark.
<Ctrl-K><Ctrl-P> will move you to the previous bookmark.
<Ctrl-K><Ctrl-C> "should" comment the selected block of text.
<Ctrl-K><Ctrl-U> "should" uncomment the selected block of text.
<Ctrl-C> (i.e. not preceded by <Ctrl-K>) will, as usual, copy the
currently selected text to the clipboard. As a new "feature", if no
text is selected the current line will be copied. (I haven't yet been
able to convince myself that this is an advantage.)
If these are not working for you, perhaps the shortcuts have been
redefined, as suggested in Larry's and Peter's notes.
Cheers,
Randy
cj wrote: So the control command combinations don't work in the VB settings?
They don't work for me. Ctrl+K if pressed twice puts a blue block to
the left of the line. I have no idea what it means. Ctrl+K twice
again removes it. Ctrl+C doesn't do anything--that I can tell.
I just found the buttons on the menu.
Also I'm using VS2003.
Jim Wooley wrote:
Has MS included in VB2005 any multi-line comment methods like in C?
/* This is a
multi-line
comment
in C */
It's something I'd like to have.
I did read somewhere that I could use Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+K,
Ctrl+U to comment or uncomment selected lines of text in VB but it
doesn't work for me. If anyone knows how let me know.
No, since the line break is the end of command identifier (as opposed
to the ; in C#, vb does not have continuation for the comments like
C#. The control command combinations might work if you use the C#
keyboard settings in VB. As an alternative, there are a couple
toolstrip items in the Text Editor toolbar which will comment and un
comment a block of text by adding the comment symbols at the
beginning of each line.
Jim Wooley
http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley
