How do you comment out all or part of a Lisp s-exp using Paredit?

Question

When editing Lisp code, occasionally it\'s useful to entirely comment out a top-level definition, like this:

;(defun some-fn-which-is-broken (x)
;  ...)
         


        

Answer 1

Just a side note:

The #+ and #- reader macros are pretty nice for commenting out sexps. They allow ignoring the following sexp, if the given symbol isn't/is found in *FEATURES*. Just pick a symbol not in *FEATURES*, and use it with #+ like this:

#+nil
(defun foo ()
  ...)

Now, the function definition will be ignored (unless NIL is in *FEATURES*, which is not very likely).