Almost all modern software packages have the ability to be extended using plugins – Coda, which is my favorite coding editor, is one such program. One of the rules I try to stick to when writing code is to always document it, adding comments inside the code so that whoever come behind me will know what is going on, and that I myself will be able to figure out my own coding later! It’s hard to remember what you were trying to accomplish on a project when you come back to it later, especially if you have worked on several big projects in between.
One of the plugins I came across was a comment banner creator. Here is the deal, inside of Coda, write the text for your comment banner and then hit the keyboard shortcut (control-shift-B) and it turns it into a comment banner. The problem that I found with the plugin is that it could not handle multiple lines. For example, the following sample three lines:
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