>Perhaps I missed it, but there seems to be no way to do a comment block in VFP other than commenting each line with * or NOTE.
>
>In some other languages, you can use syntax like /* ... */ to form a block. In FoxPro, perhaps something like COMMENT ... ENDCOMMENT would work. Is this a new Wish List item?
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>I've done things like IF .F. ... ENDIF but what goes in between can still cause compile errors, etc. if it doesn't fit FoxPro syntax.

I have the following in my CONFIG.FPW - so all I have to do is hit f5, and get a comment block...

COMMAND=On key label f5 keyboard '*'+repl('-',25)+'{ENTER}* Author:{SPACEBAR}'+sys(0)+'{ENTER}* Date:'+ tran(datetime())+' {ENTER}* SR: {ENTER}* Description:{ENTER}*{SPACEBAR}{ENTER}*-{ENTER}'

It gives me the following...

*-------------------------
* Author: HOME_1 # wmyers
* Date:05/03/2000 11:04:02 AM
* SR:
* Description:
*
*-

HTH