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"Visual programming" seems to have too many meanings. "Rich text" too. I meant code editors that "know" that you are writing code and make things easier for yo

• LeifCarrotson 9y ago
  > make things easier for you This sounds a lot like "do what I mean." You have to tell the editor in some way that you want to write a block comment or not, and that you want to end it. My editor does make somethings easier for me - if I start a block comment, it automatically inserts the block comment closing character after my cursor. It does syntax highlighting of the block comments, so it's obvious at a glance where they begin and end. I can declare or remove a bunch of single-line comments by selecting a block of text and hitting a shortcut key, or by creating a multi-line cursor at the start of the lines and adding or deleting the single-line comment characters. I find it hard to imagine an editor with an interface which is easier and faster than entering simple text, once I'm intimately familiar with the shortcuts used with the editor and the syntax of the language I'm writing in. If one exists or could exist, I'd love to know about it!
  • narag 9y ago
    I find it hard to imagine an editor with an interface which is easier and faster than entering simple text So you call "entering simple text" to the automatic managing of comments that you just described? I can't honestly agree with that ;)