WeBuilder 8.1 - Comments with keyboard in HTML and CSS

[pmmueller]

Hi,

when I insert comments in HTML oder CSS with a keyboard shortcut like CTRL+SHIFT+M I always get a line break inbetween, like this (for HTML):

<!--

-->

What I would like is plain old <!-- --> for HTML or /* */ for CSS without line breaks. I know I can get these from the toolbar, but is there any possibility to add comment via keyboard without linebreaks?

What I would ideally like is the following behaviour:

1. I select text (HTML or CSS)
2. I press CTRL-SHIFT-M
3. WeBuilder puts appropriate comment marks around the selection without adding additional line breaks.
4. If the selection begins and ends with comment marks WeBuilder should remove those marks.

Thanx
Peter

[syrupcore]

I'd love to see the same. with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+M to make it a line break style comment.

You can't get all you want now but you can use a snippet for HTML comment and another for CSS comments and make them one line. This is what I do currently. The downsides are you need a separate shortcut for each and it wont uncomment for you. That said, it works pretty well for me.

Maybe there's another way to get what you'd like but I'm not aware of it.

Will

[MikeyB]

Odd thing is, if you use the Comment toolbar button there is no line breaks.
Only happens when you assign it to a shortcut key.

[pmmueller]

you can use a snippet for HTML comment and another for CSS comments and make them one line.

Thanx. It's so obvious and I use snippets for multi-line comments in CSS, but I didn't think of this one. If you can't solve a problem, work-a-round it

if you use the Comment toolbar button there is no line breaks

Yes, that's what's so annoying. My right hand constantly moved between keyboard and mouse to click on that /* */ on the toolbar (until I made that snippet syrupcore mentioned above ...)

[Karlis]

DO NOT use Shift. When you hold down shift, comment feature adds line break. So hold down Shift and you get line break, do not hold Shift and you get a simple comment.

[x3po]

DO NOT use Shift. When you hold down shift, comment feature adds line break. So hold down Shift and you get line break, do not hold Shift and you get a simple comment.

I just ran into the same problem!
You mean i have to allocate a shortcut without the use of SHIFT to insert comments by shortcut?

[Karlis]

Yes, have a shortcut key that does not require having Shift key down.

[x3po]

Damn, i'm used to "strg+shift+m" as a long-time homesite user!

[Karlis]

Yeah, this is a bit strange implementation, but at the present time Shift works as a modifier to many commands. We will possibly change this in the future to allow wider use of Shift key.