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author | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2024-06-04 20:44:29 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2024-06-04 20:59:08 +0200 |
commit | 98fb81846dd1da03c160bfa30dbf96ba48061d53 (patch) | |
tree | e283510a27b006d5b88da072731396bb82fc145f | |
parent | 2a2c4fffd7e04f74b316209404767f128684a9e1 (diff) |
runtime(comment): clarify the usage of 'commentstring' option value
fixes: #14905
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
-rw-r--r-- | runtime/pack/dist/opt/comment/doc/comment.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/pack/dist/opt/comment/doc/comment.txt b/runtime/pack/dist/opt/comment/doc/comment.txt index e2bf7557fc..25bd067564 100644 --- a/runtime/pack/dist/opt/comment/doc/comment.txt +++ b/runtime/pack/dist/opt/comment/doc/comment.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*comment.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Apr 26 +*comment.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Jun 04 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Commenting and un-commenting text. ============================================================================== +See |comment-install| on how to activate this package. + The comment.vim package, allows to toggle comments for a single line, a range of lines or a selected text object. It defines the following mappings: @@ -21,20 +23,25 @@ gcG to comment/uncomment from current line till the end of a buffer *v_gc* {Visual}gc to comment/uncomment the highlighted lines. -The plugin uses the buffer-local 'commentstring' option value to add or remove +This plugin uses the buffer-local 'commentstring' option value to add or remove comment markers to the selected lines. Whether it will comment or un-comment depends on the first line of the range of lines to act upon. When it matches a comment marker, the line will be un-commented, if it doesn't, the line will -be commented out. Blank and empty lines are not touched. - -If the mapping does not seem to work, chances are high, that this particular -filetype is either not detected by Vim or the filetype plugin does not set the -'commentstring' option. +be commented out. Blank and empty lines are ignored. + +The comment marker will always be padded with blanks whether or not the +'commentstring' value contains whitespace around "%s". + +If the mapping does not seem to work (or uses wrong comment markers), it might +be because of several reasons: +- the filetype is not detected by Vim, see |new-filetype|, +- filetype plugins are not enabled, see |:filetype-plugin-on| or +- the filetype plugin does not set the (correct) 'commentstring' option. You can simply configure this using the following autocommand (e.g. for legacy Vim script): > - autocmd Filetype vim :setlocal commentstring="\ %s + autocmd Filetype vim :setlocal commentstring="%s This example sets the " as start of a comment for legacy Vim Script. For Vim9 script, you would instead use the "#" char: > |