[DFW.pm] Not only was Patrick right, but Vim backs him up...

Matthew Musgrove mr.muskrat at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 21:27:57 PST 2013


My mistake. Ctrl-v.

Matt


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Matthew Musgrove <mr.muskrat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Going from memory but sounds right...
>
> Position your cursor on the first character of the first line to comment
> out. Press 'v' to go into visual character mode. Position your cursor on
> the first character of the last line to comment out. Press 'I' to enter
> insert mode. Press '#' followed by 'ESC'. Done.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Tommy Butler <
> masterbucket at internetalias.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is definitely handy.
>>
>> But is there some easier way to do block commenting that doesn't consume
>> two bookmarks? I find myself doing it based on line numbers, but it hasn't
>> irritated me enough to look up a better way yet...
>>
>> --
>> Tommy Butler
>>
>> kevin <kbrannen at pwhome.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/21/2013 05:30 PM, Tommy Butler wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does your .vimrc look like?  I always like to see what goodies
>>>> there are to be found in the .vimrc files of fellow Perl hackers :-D
>>>
>>>
>>> Something I've done for a long time in my .vimrc and find useful is:
>>>
>>>
>>> map ,c :'a,'bs/^/#/
>>> map ,u :'a,'bs/^#//
>>>
>>> Then I can mark a range of lines with 'a and 'b, then hit ,c and the
>>> range is commented out. Similarly, ,u uncomments a range of lines.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
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