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Quickly (un)comment blocks of code in Rust

In languages such as Java, I often use the following pattern for quickly commenting/uncommenting whole blocks of code:

/* *
hello.world();
/* */

// I just have to add one '/' and the block is uncommented:

/* */
hello.world();
/* */

However, in Rust, the above code creates a syntax error, as it is not allowed to have unequal numbers of /* and */ in a Rust file.

But is there a similar way for quickly commenting/uncommenting blocks in Rust that does not involve using editor macro-commands?

Solution

  • You can use single-line comments to activate/deactivate your multi-lines comment, e.g.

    /*
commented_out();
// */

//*
not_commented();
// */