[ESS] ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?

[Paul Burkander]

Stata supports multi-line comments, as in your first example, but I
habitually don't use them; my code follows your second example.  For
me and my lack of lisp it's not so simple to pass a line over.  Can
you suggest a quick fix?

I didn't know about C-c C-c - by the function name it looks useful,
but I get the following error:
ess-beginning-of-function: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times]


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   >> Paul Burkander <paul at burkander.com>
>   >> on Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:20:04 -0400 wrote:
>
>   > Is there a way to make ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?
>   > If I have the following code as my region:
>
>   > /* foo */
>   > di "bar"
>
>   > I get
>   > . /* foo */
>   > unrecognized command:  / invalid command name
>   > r(199);
>
>   > .
>   > . di "bar"
>   > bar
>
>
>
> But C-c C-c skips comments right? This should be the default.
>
> With ess-eval-region is a bit trickier. It's pretty easy to remove one
> liner, but considerably much more difficult to get rid of multiline
> comments.
>
> Does stata support multilne comments? That is,  doe you need
>
>
>  /* foo
>     zoo
>  */
>
>  di "bar"
>
>
> or, just handling
>
>
>  /* foo */
>  /* zoo */
>
>  di "bar"
>
> would be enough?
>
> Vitalie.
>
>   > Which isn't terrible, since it at least gets to the display command.
>   > However, if the comment is in a loop, it breaks the loop.  Is there
>   > any way to make ESS skip the commented line?
>
>   > Thanks!
>
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