recomment

English

Etymology

re- +‎ comment

Verb

recomment (third-person singular simple present recomments, present participle recommenting, simple past and past participle recommented)

1. (transitive, programming) To convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.
   • 1997, William B. Jones, Assembly Language for the IBM PC Family, page 586:

     When all these things are done and the blank lines are removed (and the code recommented), we have […]

   • 2015, Jack Purdum, Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition:

     Once you have run the program, you can “recomment” the line back to the way it was.

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