Toggle Single Line Comment vs Single Line Comment? Why do we have both?

[Ahu Lee]

Am I missing something or both Toggle Single Line Comment (Ctrl+Q) and Single Line Comment (Ctrk+K) do the exact same thing with only difference that the latter can uncomment while the former cannot? If so, then what is the point of having Ctrl+Q? And why is it called toggle comment when in fact it only works one way?

Thank you.

[Claudia Frank]

@Ahu-Lee

Seems to work for me - which npp version, operating system and language do you use?

Cheers
Claudia

[Ahu Lee]

7.5.4
Windows 7 SP1 x86

Claudia Frank,

so Ctrl+Q actually toggles it on and off? Rally!? Well, now at least the name makes sense. It has never been working for me though. Hmm… That is so weird.

[Claudia Frank]

@Ahu-Lee

I tried it on Linux under Wine with python, c and java script.
Which language do you use?

Cheers
Claudia

[Ahu Lee]

I tried it on html\css. I’ve just tied JS and C-languages and it works fine on them. But why is this difference?

[Claudia Frank]

@Ahu-Lee

html has its own place here because it is not only one lexer but multiple.
So I assume that this is were the issue comes from.

Cheers
Claudia

[Ahu Lee]

Yes, that might be the logic of it. But this behavior still doesn’t make much sense to me. Besides, all the other popular editors toggle html/css comments the same way they do in the programming languages. It’s clearly inconsistent on npp’s part, imho.

Thank you very much!

[Claudia Frank]

@Ahu-Lee

to be honest, I don’t do much html and because of that I never checked what the issue here
is, it might be npp or it might scintilla, but yes, it is inconsistent in that case.

Cheers
Claudia