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

[Johnathon Tinsley]

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DarkOtter wrote:
>> It's a little bit hacky, but the way I do that is to do a substitute with the
>> 'start of line' token in the regexp. That way you can use a standard vim range
>> e.g. 1,10 to do lines 1 to 11
> 
> EDIT: I forgot, if you want to do a range from the current cursor position you
> can do it as '.,+x' where x is the number of lines after the one you're on.
> 
> e.g. ':.,+4s/^/# /' would comment out the line you're on and the four after it.
> 
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Thanks for all the suggestions!

I'll try them out next time I have to comment out some stuff :)

Johnathon


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