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commentary.vim : Comment stuff out; takes a motion as a target

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created by
Tim Pope
 
script type
utility
 
description
Comment stuff out.  Use gcc to comment out a line (takes a count), gc to comment out the target of a motion (for example, gcap to comment out a paragraph), and gc in visual mode to comment out the selection.  That's it.

I wrote this because 5 years after Vim added support for mapping an operator, I still couldn't find a commenting plugin that leveraged that feature (I overlooked vimscript #1173).  Striving for minimalism, the first version weighs in at just 35 lines of code.

Oh, and it uncomments, too.  The above maps actually toggle, and `gcu` uncomments a set of adjacent commented lines.  Install repeat.vim, vimscript #2136, to enable repeating with . the line commenting map gcu.  (The other maps are repeatable without it.)

https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary
 
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package script version date Vim version user release notes
commentary.zip 1.3 2016-02-11 7.0 Tim Pope Provide :Commentary command.
Provide gc text object.
Support comments with no leading space.
Preserve whitespace in b:commentary_format.
Allow disabling backslash maps.
Fix count with linewise map.
Don't trigger modelines after commenting.
Deprecation warnings.
commentary.zip 1.2 2014-03-10 7.0 Tim Pope Switch official interface from \\ to gc. \\ still works.
Allow overriding 'commentstring' with b:commentary_format.
Add User CommentaryPost callback.
commentary.zip 1.1 2011-08-28 7.0 Tim Pope Smarter indentation handling.
Always pad with whitespace.
Support nesting: /* /1* abc *1/ */.
Support custom maps.
commentary.zip 1.0 2011-08-20 7.0 Tim Pope Initial upload
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