commentize
English
Etymology
From comment + -ize.
Verb
commentize (third-person singular simple present commentizes, present participle commentizing, simple past and past participle commentized)
- (programming, content management) Synonym of comment out
- We ended up commentizing the explanatory blurbs to serve a target audience that probably wouldn't need them. They are retained within the source so that they can be easily toggled back to life as needed in future for wider audiences.
- 2016 October 25, quantixed, “Tips from the blog X: multi-line commenting in Igor”, in quantixed:
- I was manually adding “//” for each line I wanted to remove, which was annoying. It turns out that you can use Edit > Commentize to add “//” to the start of all selected lines. The keyboard shortcut in IP7 is Cmd-/. You can reverse the process with Edit > Decommentize or Cmd-\\.