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I have the following within my .vimrc:

" toggle comments
noremap <C-m> :<Left><Left><Left><Left><Left>exe "<Right><Right><Right><C-Right><Right>normal! I".g:commentType<CR>
autocmd BufReadPost *.php let g:commentType='//'      "Perl files
autocmd BufReadPost *.styl let g:commentType='//' "C files
autocmd BufReadPost *.js let g:commentType='//' "C files

I want it so if I do 'ctrl+m' on a line that is already commented, it'll uncomment it, and if the line doesn't have comments, it'll add it

So

blah blah text

becomes 

// blah blah text

and if I do it again

// blah blah text

becomes

blah blah text

How may i do this?

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    Why do you have so many <left> and <right>? This works just fine for me: noremap <C-m> :exe "normal! I".g:commentType<CR>
    – DJMcMayhem
    Jun 9, 2016 at 19:18

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if you're willing to use a plugin, there are many commenting plugins out there. Some of the most popular examples are:

All of these have mappings for toggling comments. You can remap <C-m> to this command. For example, if you go with tpope/commentary, you could do:

nmap <C-m> gcc

which toggles a line.

If you don't want to install a plugin, you'll need to write a vimscript that detects if a line starts with a comment, and then adds or removes it accordingly. This is definitely possible, but I don't know how to do it myself, so I'll let someone else answer that if they want to.

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  • I've tried nnoremap <C-m> gcc with tpop vim commentary, but it doesn't work. Any idea why? gcc works tho.
    – ditto
    Jun 9, 2016 at 19:39
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    @ditto Whoops, my bad. I say nnoremap by default. In this case you want nmap since gcc itself is a mapping. (see here)
    – DJMcMayhem
    Jun 9, 2016 at 19:41
  • Awesome, have it working now. Tar. Am I able to highlight several rows and toggle them in 1 go? I've tried a few times and can't seem to get it working.
    – ditto
    Jun 9, 2016 at 19:48
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    @ditto With <C-m>? Surround vim's mapping for visual mode is gc so if you want that to work you'll have to do xmap <C-m> gc.
    – DJMcMayhem
    Jun 9, 2016 at 19:50

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