How to TOGGLE PHP comments?

[zuggsoft]

Right now, this is the main issue preventing me from using Rapid PHP on a regular basis...it is *really* starting to bug me. I have tested this in the latest 9.4.0.102 version.

The PHP/PHP Line Comment menu command only seems to ADD a comment to a line. For example, click on a line and then select PHP Line Comment. The // is added to the beginning of the line. Now select Line Comment again, and *another* // comment is added. I need a way to TOGGLE the // comment on a line.

If I select a block of text, the Line Comment adds the // to each line, and if I select the same block of text again, then Line Comment *will* remove the comments. So this *does* act as a toggle when multiple lines are selected. This is inconsistent and doesn't work on just a single line when the text isn't selected.

Also, when commenting a selection of text, the line following the selection is also commented. For example, if I have:

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  line 1
  line 2
  line 3

and I select line 1 and line 2 (by clicking and dragging the mouse in the line-number area), and then select Line Comment, the // is also added to "line 3", even though "line 3" is not selected. The problem is that the cursor is at the beginning of line 3, and the bug is that it comments out the line with the cursor even if it's not selected.

In general this whole function is a mess. And I use this function a lot in my coding. Please clean this up soon before I give up and go back to a different PHP IDE. Thanks.

[Karlis]

I re-tested it and it works as expected. But there is one thing you should note. The cursor must be inside of the comment, if it is inside the code, the program, of course thinks that you want to add a new comment tag. So if you want to remove comment, make sure cursor is inside the comment and not inside the code.

Example, if cursor is | and you have code:

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|echo $test; // prints test value

toggling the comment would result in

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//|echo $test; // prints test value

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Now about the second problem, when you select lines by dragging mouse over the gutter (line numbers), the newline after the last selected line is also selected and the cursor pops to the next line. Why? Becuase this lets you cut/copy the selected lines with the trailing newline included for easy pasting also this helps to quickly remove lines without leaving a blank line. However, to avoid adding comment to the last line, make sure the last line does not have cursor in it.

Or, am I not getting something here? If so, please elaborate.