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  1. @ultim8k ultim8k revised this gist Nov 4, 2016. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
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    For those tasks I use most of the time block selection.

    Put your cursor on the first # character, press CtrlV (or CtrlQ for gVim), and go down until the last commented line and press x, that will delete all the # characters vertically.
    Put your cursor on the first `#` character, press `Ctrl``V` (or `Ctrl``Q` for gVim), and go down until the last commented line and press `x`, that will delete all the `#` characters vertically.

    For commenting a block of text is almost the same: First, go to the first line you want to comment, press CtrlV, and select until the last line. Second, press ShiftI#Esc (then give it a second), and it will insert a # character on all selected lines. For the stripped-down version of vim shipped with debian/ubuntu by default, type : s/^/# in the second step instead.
    For commenting a block of text is almost the same: First, go to the first line you want to comment, press `Ctrl``V`, and select until the last line. Second, press `Shift``I``#``Esc` (then give it a second), and it will insert a `#` character on all selected lines. For the stripped-down version of vim shipped with debian/ubuntu by default, type `: s/^/#` in the second step instead.
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    From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1676632/whats-a-quick-way-to-comment-uncomment-lines-in-vim

    For those tasks I use most of the time block selection.

    Put your cursor on the first # character, press CtrlV (or CtrlQ for gVim), and go down until the last commented line and press x, that will delete all the # characters vertically.

    For commenting a block of text is almost the same: First, go to the first line you want to comment, press CtrlV, and select until the last line. Second, press ShiftI#Esc (then give it a second), and it will insert a # character on all selected lines. For the stripped-down version of vim shipped with debian/ubuntu by default, type : s/^/# in the second step instead.