Clojurians Log v2

How do you comment a form in cursive?

Comment out that is

#_

This applies to all of clojure, not only cursive though

So I might have misunderstood your question

Ah, so there is no comment form like in emacs.

There isn't an intellij action for it, no

There's an open issue however https://github.com/cursive-ide/cursive/issues/1047

Good to know!

I mean, the block comment action works. It just prefixes all the lines which isn't always nice. Parinfer does the right thing though

Hmm. block comment action is disabled for me no matter whether I'm in paredit or infer

That's strange... I'm using it on a regular basis

Via the keyboard shortcut anyway

do you have anything selected when you invoke it?

well yeah… I don’t see how else you’d use it

pushing ⌘/

I use comment. It’s not specific to cursive but works very well. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/comment

You can record an IntelliJ macro (nothing to do with Clojure macros) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9638895/rubymine-shortcut-to-insert/9639266#9639266

Thanks for the explanation. Although I believe that still triggers the line comment action

(before 1. make sure you’re actually inside an Sexprs) 1. Edit | `Macros` | `Start Macro Recording`

2. Navigate | Structural Movement | Move backward out of Sexpr

3. Type #_ whenever the cursor is (should be at the beginning of an Sexprs)

4. Edit | `Macros` | `Stop Macro Recording`

5. Give your “macro” a name

6. Go to Keymap and assign a keyboard shortcut for it

Just tried it, it works! It’s a nice idea.

You can be anywhere inside an Sexprs, press your shortcut, and comments out the whole form via #_

You can add “Format Code” as a last action of your macro, then it looks even better 🙂