Try Tuts+ Premium, Get Cash Back!
Vim Essential Plugin: tComment
videos

Vim Essential Plugin: tComment

on Apr 3rd 2011 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Plugin: tComment
  • Screencast Length: 3 Minutes
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the Vim Essential Plugins Session
« PreviousNext »

The tComment Vim plugin serves one purpose: to help you toggle comments in your code as quickly as possible. I’ll show you how easy it is to use in this quick tip.

Usage

This utility plugin is a cinch to use – mostly because it performs only a single task. To comment a line of code, press ctrl _ ctrl _. Alternatively, if you wish to toggle multiple lines, select them in visual mode, and, again, press the trigger sequence: ctrl _ ctrl _

You can also use the shortcut gcc to comment a single line at a time. If you’d instead prefer to comment a single word, a few letters, or any other motion, use gc{motion}. For example, to comment the first word on a line, I could type: gcw, or, for the first three words: gc3w.

 
Enjoyed this Post?

Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!

By

Rollover to read this author's bio or click through to see a full list of posts by this author.

I'm the editor of Nettuts+, and love making the process of building for the web as easy as possible. Also, I'm finishing up my latest book on Laravel Testing! If you want be friends, say hi on Twitter.  

Plus Premium
 
 
Note: Want to add some source code? Type <pre><code> before it and </code></pre> after it. Find out more
  • Marcin

    Very useful, indeed. However, recently (btw. because of SASS session) I started working on my project with .scss files, and the default commenting is done by //. Can anyone help me how to change the default style to /* ?
    PS. Also how to set indentation to sw=4 and expandtab only for .scss files?

  • http://designslicer.com Kien

    au BufRead,BufNewFile *.scss set ft=scss.css | set sw=4 | set expandtab

    Put it somewhere in your vimrc, ofc.

  • rabbit

    hey jeffrey ,
    great series , thanks a lot for this . This really help me to become more productive and efficient on vim .

    BTW, I have a question and i know this is not the place to ask this type of question but i am just VERY curious ….!! In this screencast , there are a lots of icons of different app on right of your mac menu bar and most of them are unknown to me . I have recently switched to mac and so I am still in the middle of getting familiar with the developing environment , so if u can tell me what app are those then that would be a great help for me . I am assuming that all those apps are related to development work .

    Again sorry for asking this wired question here if it bother you .

  • siros

    @1:13 you said you can comment out a ‘file’.

    and repeated it again with ‘you can select multiple-files’.

    where you should said Lines not files.

    Great plugin I see everyone trying to get the power of some textmate features with vim flavor .

    The later is driving me crazy by the way :D

  • http://elegwance.com/blog elegwance

    @0:35 How can focus to terminal at center like modal form?

    Very helpful post. thanks you.

  • http://www.iwebprovider.com Innovative Web Provider

    I’m still starting on using vim as my editor on web programming and you made my coding experience a lot easier because of this.