Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are programmer-readable annotations in source code which are ignored by the parser.
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Conceal comments in Vim/Neovim
I am writing a lot of latex and would like to conceal comments.
There are often several lines of text that I comment but would like to keep/not delete.
Concealing comments explained: A comment is ...
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Creating a better ftplugin for rmarkdown
The Rmarkdown files have markdown formatting interspersed with R language chunks, denoted as follows:
# markdown header
markdown regular text
```{r}
# comment: some R code...
a <- pi * r^2
```
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How can add the comment lines when call function?
I want to add shebang when creating anew python file.
.vimrc:
autocmd BufNewFile *.py exec ":call SetTitle_py(0)"
func SetTitle_py(line_num)
let boilerplate = [
\"#!/usr/bin/...
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Why the comment can't be set at the second line instead of first line?
I want to add some comment lines when to edit python file:
vim .vimrc
autocmd BufNewFile *.py exec ":call SetTitle_py()"
func SetTitle_py()
call append(line("."), "#...
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:.w !bash a temporarily modified line and executing it in the shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# scp /tmp/abc.sh SERVER1:~/bin && ssh SERVER1 "~/bin/abc.sh"
echo "Hello Stack Exchange"
echo "thanks for the help
I would like to be able to use ...
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block comments not automatically indented in Neovim
When inserting a block comment in a (TypeScript) buffer in Neovim, the line after the /**<Return> is not automatically indented. How can I achieve the expected behavior described below?
Neovim
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Stop foldmarker inserting hash
I my folds are set with foldmarker={{{,}}}. When I create a fold it inserts a comment # char before the marker. So it inserts #{{{. How do I stop it doing this?
I have syntax highlighting (and it ...
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A question about the comment for comment shell command
When I read the comment help file, I found
It is not possible to add a comment to a shell command ":!cmd" or to the
":map" command and a few others (mainly commands that expect ...
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How do you disable all magic comment formatting in neovim?
I recently switched to Neovim's new LSP setup instead of the old Vim-based language plugins and now I get this incredibly annoying comment "helper" behavior when I hit enter after a /** in e....
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How to comment html in php file in vim?
I use this plugin for comments.
Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary'
And when I comment html code in php I get
/* <div class="our-photos"> */
/* <h2 class="our-photos__main-title"...
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Plug-in to create comment layer
Is there any plug-in where you can write text without being in insert mode but it’s not being written to the actual file? If you enter insert mode, all that comment text disappears. It should be in a ...
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Automatic removal of indent in markdown (fenced) codeblock comments starting with #
When writing indented fenced codeblocks (the only ones I use) like
```sh
some shell code
```
in markdown the indentation of comments is automatically removed when I type the comment ...
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Marking/Annotating lines with symbols (with external storage)
When I audit code I perform a lot of annotations/mark lines. (what audited, by whom, if we have open issue, etc etc...).
When I work with code I would like to mark lines (both individually and ranges),...
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Reformatting comments with gq, using spaces in 'comments'
I'm using Prettier to automatically reformat JavaScript (well, TypeScript, but same deal in this situation) source-code.
It enforces a comment-style like this, with leading spaces replaced with ·:
···/...
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How to get bold comments in vim
I am trying to add bold comments to my vim files. What i mean, is to be able to get something like this:
I saw other articles like this that allow to toggle bold comment.
The proposed solutions from ...
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Insert and remove a marker at the start of the current line
So, I'm trying to set up a sort of bookmark/marker kind of workflow, and I came to notice I'm used to put characters such as # and such for different meaning inside my own notes, etc.
Now, I already ...
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Check if vim is in a comment section
How can I check if the cursor is inside a comment section like this in C:
/*
* Comment section
*/
Or in python:
"""
Doc string
"""
# Comment line
My idea for C is, ...
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Why does this pattern make :global work only on the first line of the highligted match?
\/\*.*\(\n\s\*.*\)*\n\s\*\/ is a pattern which I cooked up to match some multi-line C comments, i.e., in the format of:
/* Comment Text
* Comment Text
* Comment Text
*/
Searching for the pattern ...
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Commentary with a Single Block
With Commentary I've set the commentstring for markdown:
autocmd FileType markdown setlocal commentstring=<!--\ %s\ -->
When I visually select the lines and gc
a
b
c
I get
<!-- a -->
<...
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Adding new filetypes with vim commentary
I'm trying to add include an unsupported filetype, gf, with vim commentary. The comments are simple, just prepend -- to any line, as in the Haskell tradition.
According to the vim-commentary git,
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Change default character for comments
The assigned character for comments is " for vimscript. But i want to change it to some other character (like * or # for example).
Based on this post, it seems like the string setlocal ...
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How to comment out only code lines and not existing comments
I use vim-commentary to comment. Hit g-c-c to toggle comments. But this will comment out the already existing comments if they start with // and it will comment out already existing comments startin ...
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Is there a way to insert documentation comments into a VIM macro definition?
I have found VI / VIM macros extremely obtuse to understand even a week after I've written them. The syntax of a .vimrc file supports comments on lines beginning with a doublequote character (") ...
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How are quotation marks used in this dotfile?
I'm a complete Linux beginner, trying to understand dotfiles. I've got the .vimrc dotfile, and tried to add the following command to the bottom:
" <Ctrl-l> redraws the screen and removes ...
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bad comment behavior in cmake files
When I'm editing a cmake file in (neo)vim I'm getting bad behavior block inserting comment characters.
Given this section of text
install_license_file(
PACKAGE tomcrypt
TARGET ...
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How to disable auto insertion of comment header when pressing enter, but keep auto insertion of header when auto wrapping comment?
When editing c and cpp files, this is the behavior I want to achieve:
When typing a comment line of the form // Line..., pressing <CR> should not add the comment header // in the next line.
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Autoindent unordered lists that start with a hyphen in cpp files
The context
I've the following options in my vimrc
set formatoptions=cnroqj
set textwidth=80
When editing tex files, lines whose content is longer than &textwidth is
splitted and formatted as ...
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Defining a color to be the same color of comments
I'm using the indentLine plugin to display line indents with a continuos vertical line, and I'd like to set the color of that line to the same color of my comments.
To get the foreground color of my ...
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Comment-out in vim with Shift-i not working
To comment out a block in vim, I enter visual mode with v or Control-v, select some lines, then hit I (Shift-i).
However, I takes me out of visual mode and into Insert mode (which makes sense, as ...
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Commenting out an element of a multiline list
Is it possible to comment out one element of a multiline list? Or, in general, can you combine line continuations with comments?
(Lightly modified from my vimrc)
[
\'eslint',
\'tsserver',
...
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Comment highlight group does not work without reloading .vimrc
The following line in my ~/.vimrc:
hi Comment ctermfg=gray
does not take effect unless I start Vim and then use :source to reload .vimrc. As far as I can tell, all of the other hi commands work ...
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Automatically fold particular content, in any filetype
I often find myself patching projects that add a relatively big (23 lines out of a 37-line file? ) license-header to every. single. file.
Is there a plugin or straightforward way I can add a global ...
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Pretty python comments
I comment sections in python via a centered title surrounded by #. What I would like is to make a command so that I can automatically generate such headers. For example, to generate a line like the ...
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Are there comments in command-line mode?
Does VIM support comments in command-line mode?
I have tried the most popular variants including .VIMRC comments but neither worked:
:echo "hello" // echo usage
:echo "hello" /* echo usage */
:echo "...
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Create indented comment box vim
Background
I have a code file and I like to place comments inside my code. Sometimes, these comments are boxed:
defmodule BananasModule do
##############
# Public API #
##############
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Javascript syntax-highlight for JsDoc comments
I now use plugin vim-javascript just to have a nice syntax highlight for JsDoc comments in my Javascript files.
vim-javascript provides nice colors highlight but it conflict with all parentheses ...
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MatchIt not matching anymore if parenthesis, brackets, etc. are between quotes or in comments?
I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and this has Vim version 8.0.
This newer version has MatchIt setup to ignore parenthesis, brackets, etc. found inside comments and strings. Although it is at times useful, ...
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Auto-insert C++ comment only on <shift+enter>
The comment auto-insert feature is often very helpful and otherwise very annoying, depending on the kind of comment I am writing. Is it possible to bind the auto-insertion of // exclusively to <...
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How to set a shortcut for multiple leader commands
I'm using the nerdcommenter to comment and uncomment my c++ code.
Basically I use \cc to comment one line, \cu to uncomment, \ca to switch the delimiters (switch // to /**/ or switch back).
Now I ...
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Vim and enhanced commentify weird behavior for C
I am trying to use EnhancedCommentify plugin for vim and mostly using C. However I can't figure out the issue but when I comment/uncomment it uses (* ---- \*) instead of /* ----- \*/. I tried to ...
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Alert sound when using <C-L> etc. mappings
I've got these mappings in my .vimrc:
nnoremap <C-Tab> :tabn<cr> " cycle tabs
nnoremap <C-S-Tab> :tabp<cr> " cycle tabs backward
nnoremap <C-J> <C-W><C-J&...
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use J to join comments
Imagine I have comments
// line one
// line two
and I am on line one and want to join it with line two I will press J but that results in this:
// line one // line two
Instead of what I want
// ...
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NeoVim: Single-Line Comments Also Format the Next Line [duplicate]
So, I started using NeoVim a little while ago and discovered a rather annoying quirk when using C++-style single-line comments // in source code of any language.
Specifically, when you create a new ...
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Mapping to insert comment at the end of a line
I'm currently writing a plugin to quickly appends commented TODO: codetags to the end of a line in any file type.
How can I make vim make use of it's commenstring feature to append a comment that ...
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How do I get Vim (with TComment) to do proper block comments in OCaml?
(I have TComment installed, and I'm on NeoVim 0.4.0.)
Given this code, for example:
let mem key st =
let is_matching_key = function
| Positional _ -> false
| Flag f -> f.name == key
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How can I make Vimscript check if the current line has a comment?
I want to make a Python ftplugin (but other filetypes will also have this option) where, if the previous line has a comment that starts with #, the next line can be commented via <Shift><CR&...
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Vim doesn't extend Roxygen R comments
I'd like it if, when filling out my Roxygen comment snippet,
#' Title
#'
#' @param
#'
#' @return
#'
#' @examples
#'
#'
#' @export ...
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Applying full auto-format to comments but not code
I am considering using Vim's auto-format feature (i.e., adding a to formatoptions). However, I can't seem to figure out a combination of options that will give me the configuration that I want. For ...
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My C like Comments include markdown, can I have vim highlight those in my JavaScript (Node.js) code? [duplicate]
I write a lot of C/C++ and get highlighting for my Doxygen docs in my comments. It's not perfect, but it sure helps avoiding many very simple mistakes on the spot.
To handle that, I simply have the ...
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How to add JavaScript and JSX comments in the same .js file
I've been using Neovim to do the majority of my dev work for most of 2018 however something that has eluded me is being able to quickly toggle JSX comments
{/* JSX */}
and regular Javascript ...
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