wow wonderful! this works flawlessly when i select the region inside the code block and run the command. I wonder if any lisp wizards out there can modify Johns code and make it auto select all lines *inside* the current block and then comment it? could be useful to other people i assume. thx again On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > This seems to work for some toy examples: > > (defun comment-org-in-src-block () > (interactive) > (org-edit-special) > (comment-dwim nil) > (org-edit-src-exit)) > > > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi all > > > > i was wondering if anyone knew of a command or bind to quickly comment > the > > entire content of an org code block (with the correct comment syntax)? > > > > thx! > > > > Z > > -- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > @johnkitchin > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >