Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:40 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Peter.  But I still think we should
> have comment blocks.  Yeah, I know it's not shellish.

Another approach you might consider:

(( dothis )) && {
  # all the code you want to skip over
}

That does mean that "all the code you want to skip over" has to be
syntactically valid, but it also means you can turn that code back on
with

dothis=1 zsh yourscript.zsh