insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

[Monte Goulding]

What version are you using? I did some work on this a little while ago so it should be much quicker in the latest releases.

> On 18 Oct 2016, at 12:55 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been waiting now for over ten minutes for this round of commenting
> to apply.
> 
> My main script is something like 15k lines.  At the moment, I'm
> sequentially blocking out large parts for a stripped down stack for a bug
> report.
> 
> This last round, I think I applied comment to about 2k lines at once.
> 
> And so it sits here, at 100% load..
> 
> I suspect that this is comping about from repeated move/insertion links.
> 
> Instead, it should probably test the number of lines selected, copy to that
> point, append each line after that  to be commented with the comment
> prefix, and then pend the rest, only then returning to the original
> container.
> 
> I've had long waits before, but this is insane.
> 
> And it appears that if I hit enough breaks to stop, it would gibe me a
> partially commented out result . . .
> 
> 
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