No html comments in eRuby templates. How to enable?

[green1000]

There is no html comments in eruby. As a block comment it puts # instead of <!-- -->
How to have html comments along with ruby's comments on keyboard shortcuts?

[Aivars]

I just tried it (New eRuby, typed some html, selected, block comment and got <!-- -->). I might be doing something wrong, so please give some step by step instructions on reproducing the problem.

[green1000]

I just tried it (New eRuby, typed some html, selected, block comment and got <!-- -->). I might be doing something wrong, so please give some step by step instructions on reproducing the problem.

Yes, works well. I had to correctly set keyboard shortcuts.

But there is another problem. I wrote about it already in the feedback form. It's not a big problem but a little inconvenient, force you to make needless mouse movements and clicks.

The editor puts line comment (// in js, # in ruby) exactly in the place where the cursor is but not at the start of the line, e.g:
alert("hello w//orld") <-- if cursor was between "w" and "o" and I pressed shortcuts for comment

Other editors place comment sign at the beginning of the line always even if cursor is in the middle of the line:
// alert("hello world") <-- let's say cursor was between "w" and "o"

Or is it configurable?

[Aivars]

I don't think it's configurable, but a plugin can be written to do this. If you want me to, I can try to write the plugin for you, just let me know exactly how it should behave.

[green1000]

I don't think it's configurable, but a plugin can be written to do this. If you want me to, I can try to write the plugin for you, just let me know exactly how it should behave.

Oh, what a service. For now I do not need. Nevertheless, thank you.

But I was right, there is a situation that there is no html comments in eRuby templates. I figured out when it happens. Please see the example:

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<%  if(@somevar) %>
   <p><%= @somevar %></p>   // no html comments here, only #
<% end %>

If I need to comment a true html section that is <% %> between <% %>, than only ruby comments # are available for it. No html <!-- -->. Neither keyboard shortcuts nor block comment button from toolbar put <!-- -->. Only #. It is a little unexpected when happens.

[green1000]

No there are html comments!

The direction you select the line matters:

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<%  if(@somevar) %>
   <p><%= @somevar %></p>    // select a line from the end to the beginning <--- |, ruby comment
   <p><%= @somevar %></p>    // select a line from the beginning to the end | --->, HTML comment
<% end %>

Wow Is this a design decision or an accidental behavior? It is convenient.

[Aivars]

I think it depends on cursor position and whether cursor is at the ruby code block or in html code block. I'm not sure why it adds ruby comments when the cursor is in the beginning of the line, to me it doesn't make much sense but there was probably a reason for this behavior. If it gets annoying, let me know and I'll add it to bug/request tracker.