Auto Comment Block In TextMate

Schell — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:34:14 +0000

If you haven’t heard of TextMate go check it out it’s sweet. It allows a helluva lot of automation and is damn near the only thing you need for development of any language [minus compilers]. I’m about ready to throw away my Flash CS3 IDE I got for free from my day job and shell out the 39 pounds to buy it [those of you who know me personally know I don't ever buy software].

So, here’s a little command I wrote in the form of a bash script [I think all textmate commands are bash scripts or cocoadialog thangs]. The script takes selected input and pads it with “/* */” if it isn’t already, effectively commenting the text or it strips the comment block. I don’t write shell scripts often, so I like it when I get one that’s really useful.

#!/bin/bash

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Make comment / Undo comment
# by Schell Scivally
# @ efnx.com
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

opening=`echo "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" | awk 'BEGIN {nlines=0} /\/\*/ {nlines++} END {print nlines}'`
if [[ "$opening" == 0 ]];
then
echo -n "/*$TM_SELECTED_TEXT*/"
else
output=`echo "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" | sed 's/\*\///g' | sed 's/\/\*//g'`
echo -n "$output"
fi

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Auto Comment Block In TextMate