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VIM Trick: How to Comment Multiple Lines

Rai

Linux

If you need to comment out lines of text inside VIM, you can try this trick:

(Enter command mode in VIM)
:40,105s/^/#/g

This will insert the # character at the beginning of each line starting from line number 40 to line number 105.

If you cannot see the line numbers, do this:

(Enter command mode in VIM)
:set number

To remove the lines:
:set nonumber

This is quite handy if you need to comment out lines of codes in a script.

2 Comments to “VIM Trick: How to Comment Multiple Lines”

Mohan January 20, 2011 at 5:22 am
It is quite useful, tahnks for the trick.
Oscar November 11, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Rai,

This is helpful indeed it makes administration easier… ;p