Modified version of commentary.vim for fixed width formats. Used for putting a comment character in a specific column (I.E. Fortran 77 needs the comment character in the first column space). This commenting mode doesn't use regular expressions, but instead column specific replacement (for example, a common Fortran 77 comment character is 'C' in column 1. If the line to be commented out is "call subroutine_a()", then a regex replacement might turn "call..." into "all..." instead of putting a 'C' in column 1). Can be activated using the variable g:commentary_fixed. If g:commentary_fixed is 0 (default), the plugin behaves normally.
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), gc in visual mode to comment out the selection,
and gc in operator pending mode to target a comment. You can also use
it as a command, either with a range like :7,17Commentary, or as part of a
:global invocation like with :g/TODO/Commentary. 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 tcomment.vim). Striving for minimalism, it weighs in at under 100 lines of code.
Oh, and it uncomments, too. The above maps actually toggle, and gcgc
uncomments a set of adjacent commented lines.
If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing pathogen.vim, and then simply copy and paste:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git
Once help tags have been generated, you can view the manual with
:help commentary.
My favorite file type isn't supported!
Relax! You just have to adjust 'commentstring':
autocmd FileType apache setlocal commentstring=#\ %s
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Copyright (c) Tim Pope. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.
See :help license.