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In gherkin syntax (used by Cucumber and SpecFlow, I can comment out a line by prefixing it with '#'
Is there any way to block-comment multiple lines?
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Feature file only supports comments with a # sign. We put # at the beginning of our Comment. You want to do a single line or multiple line comments; you need to put # before all lines. The parser will ignore every line which starts with #.
Most lines in a Gherkin document start with one of the keywords. Comments are only permitted at the start of a new line, anywhere in the feature file. They begin with zero or more spaces, followed by a hash sign ( # ) and some text. Block comments are currently not supported by Gherkin.
Comments can be placed any where in the bdd file. Comment can be single line or multiline. Single line comment starts with # or ! . Multi-line comments start with """ and end with """ .
It is not supported by Gherkin, so you have to prefix all lines with #.
If you use the SpecFlow Visual Studio extension (v1.9.2) you can simply select the lines and toggle them into comments and back. The default shortcuts are Ctrl+K,C to comment and Ctrl+K,U to uncomment.
You can also "workaround" this problem in Visual Studio using the multi-line editing feature. (See http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/26/box-selection-and-multi-line-editing-with-vs-2010.aspx). You just have to select the beginning of the lines with holding ALT and using the mouse. Using this feature you can type in all the selected lines at the same time. You can also remove all of them similarly, selecting all the # characters for deletion.
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Yes, there is. It's called PyStrings type comments. See example at http://docs.behat.org/guides/1.gherkin.html#pystrings.
It will work if you use it just after Feature or Scenario and some other elements.
Feature: my feature """ some block comment still block comment """ end of block comment Scenario: my feature """ some block comment still block comment """ end of block comment One the other hand it will not work if you want to comment out some steps.
I think you can configure your IDE to comment out a line on standard key combination. For example IntelliJ recognizes *.feature files and allows to comment out line out of the box. The same possible to do with Notepad++ or even VS.
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