What is your favorite way to comment several lines in Vim? [closed]

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It happens more often than not that I have to comment several lines at once in Vim. Methods that I know are not as fast as say TextMate way to comment lines out.

What is your favorite way to do it?

I currently use:

Method 1:

• go to first char of a line and use blockwise visual mode (ctrl-v)
• go down/up until the first characters of every lines you want to comment out are selected
• use shift-i and then type your comment character (# for Ruby)
• use esc to insert the comment character to every line

Method 2:

• select lines you need to comment out using linewise visual mode (shift-v)
• 开发者_开发百科type : which gives you a :'<,'> prompt which you can extend to :'<,'>s/^/#/

Method 3:

• go to the first line to be commented out
• make a bookmark for example typing mm
• go to the last line to be commented out
• type :'m,.s/^/#/

I like method 1 the most but I still hope there is a better way.

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I think you described the most popular ways to comment code, but if you are open to use Vim Scripts, give a look to those:

• The NERD Commenter
• EnhCommentify.vim
• tComment

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I use a keymap for the regex part, but I do the same visual selection first. Usually using:

vip

to get the visual block (paragraph visual selection)

then using

\cc
\co

for comment add/remove (cc,co chosen for muscle memory reasons)

with the mappings defined in .vimrc as:

vmap <leader>cc :s/^/#/<cr>
vmap <leader>co :s/^#//<cr>

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Though this is rather old I just wanted to add my solution which is pretty similar to everyone elses but adds the unhighlighting function. In my .vimrc file I have the following maps:

:vmap `c :s/^/\/*/<cr>gv:s/$/*\//<cr>:noh<cr>i
:vmap `r :s/^\/\*//<cr>gv:s/\*\/$/<cr>:noh<cr>i

Note: I use /*line of code*/ style of commenting to be compatible with old c code. In vim I simply highlight the lines and push `c to comment and `r to remove comments.

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I normally just save the step in a macro and then invoke the macro in whichever fashion I feel like.

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Plugins are the way to go. They are extensible, they already support more filetypes that you would ever use, they are automagically able to toggle the commented state of a line (in other words: no need to consume two shortcuts where one is enough).

See the list given by CMS.

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I was looking for a set of commands for ANSI C one-line commenting and I've tried out most of the answers at SO.

None of them suit my needs and as I have to use an old 7.2 version of Vim at the moment and I cannot easily download suitable plugins I came up with these handy mappings:

:nnoremap <leader>c :exe "normal mqI/* "<esc> :exe "normal A */"<esc> :exe "normal 'q"<cr>
:nnoremap <leader>r ^xxx$xxx^

<leader>c comments out a line and goes back to the beginning of that line.

<leader>r removes the the comments from the beginning and the end of the current line.