[ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Johnathon Tinsley <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk>:

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> Hello,
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> We sometimes need to quickly comment out a, for example, vhost config in
> vi. Now, I've worked out that you can add the first comment #, ESC and
> then hit DOWN, FULL-STOP, DOWN, FULL-STOP etc to quickly comment out
> multiple lines.
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> But, what I'd love, is a way I can type say 11 <command> and get it to
> turn 11 lines into a comment.
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> Does anyone know of a nice way to do that in vim?

CTRL-v (number), DOWN ARROW, SHIFT-i, #, ESC, DOWN ARROW

works for me...

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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