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Currently, Block Comment (ctrl-shift-/) does smartly disable nested comments, e.g., vvvvvvvv Selected Text /* already blocked this too */ More Text ^^^^^^ Selected becomes /* Text * already blocked this too * More Text */ The problem goes when you seek to reverse this, with ctrl-shift-\ There's no way to restore the existing block comment as it is done. Suggest that the existing block comment could be dealt with in a manner that Eclipse could recognize as a restorable comment, to wit: /* Text //1\\ already blocked this too //1\\ More Text */ Then, when you use the reverse block it would remove the block and restore the //1\\ to a /* */ pair. Ideally, the use of the number makes it so it could deal properly with nested-nesting (//2\\, etc.), but that's at least a bit out there. I suggest this deals fairly elegantly with the problem. Someone could mess up a bit by removing the added block /* */ by hand, but it does provide the capacity to temporarily dyke out some code and not worry about existing block comments being messed up.
