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It seems you're under the impression that the 'commentstring' option can be used to set which character or format is recognized as a comment in Vimscript... But that's not at all what it is about!
It's about telling Vim which format is recognized as a comment in the current language (as in, the current filetype), so that if Vim needs to insert a comment ...
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The vim-commentary plugin uses 'commentstring' to define what a comment should look like. Some languages support multiple comment formats, e.g. // & /* */. Change 'commentstring to match the format that you use
set commentstring=//%s
However, if a project uses two different formats then you can still it becomes more challenging. I would then suggest ...
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You might want to consider using the NERD Commenter plug-in, which offers mappings with finer granularity.
See the default mappings, you have <Leader>cc to comment a block of code (not toggle) and also <Leader>cn to comment the code, but forces nesting (which makes it easier to uncomment the block and keep the pre-existing comments as such.)
You ...
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Thanks @danidiaz and @Jake,
You both seem to be heading down similar paths and I had not even thought of doing it that way.
Here's what I came up with as a 2D .vimrc comment display format directly in the .vimrc file. Let me know what you think.
"
"= GENERIC CLIPBOARD YANK <F2>y (Y for Yank)
"= Yank the entire contents of the file into ...
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A Vim macro is just text stored in a register, which is taken to represent normal mode commands.
Perhaps you could write commented Vimscript functions that constructed and returned a command string, like this:
func MakeMacro()
let l:m = ""
" some comment
let l:m .= "ifoo"
" some other comment
let l:m .= &...
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