[nostromo]

I like it. It almost makes me wish I could comment my code like this somehow.

I often find that long comments can break my flow when reading code -- but of course, commenting is necessary, so perhaps it could be useful to pull them aside in an IDE. Does something like that exist?

[OvidNaso]

Isn't this sort of the original intent and purpose of Literate programming. I just spent a bunch of my time creating my emacs configuartion in org-mode using babel [0] and man, it was a cool experience. You can comment out the wazoo, linking to the web, other files or other parts of the same file all organized in a custom hierarchy or whatever you choose.

Then just C-c C-v t and all the source code is in a clean seperate file. You can even set it up to include the comments, link to the comments, or whatever other way you want the output to be. If I ever pursue programming more seriously, I can't image not seriously trying to do it in this manner.

0. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/

[jostylr]

I wrote a markdown based version of literate-programming that allows one to write it with lots of comments and organize the code in anyway you wish. But then when compiled, you can see all the code without all the long comments. You can still have normal programming comments in there, of course, but the detailed thinking (the why and an overview of relations to other parts) can be taken away.

https://github.com/jostylr/literate-programming-lib

[markm208]

There is something that I have been working on:

https://vimeo.com/97711978#t=0m37s

[ThrustVectoring]

There's likely some way to have Vim automatically fold and hide comments. Then, they're one line when not needed, and a `zo` away when you want to read them.