From: Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T22:42:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Block comments syntax

Hello.

Jonathan Leighton:

> Well if you want to temporarily get rid of a large number of lines,
> block comments are much, much quicker than doing a line comment for
> each and every line.

In vim, I simply use block select (ctrl-v) to select the first column
of the affected lines and replace the spaces with comment marks (r#).
This has the additional benefit of not shifting the commented-out code
to the right.

Cheers,
-- Shot
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