I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I use a plugin to do this because different languages have different requirements for comments and I'm lazy). I use commentary but there are a few that all do much the same thing.
Out of your options, I prefer #3, but I'd also consider using a macro and repeating it n times if the comments required changing the start and end of the line, like in CSS.
Using ctrl-smilieface to enter pedantic mode I feel the urge to point out that #3 is Vim only and not available in Vi.
I haven't had a lot of experiences with different plugins, but I will have to check out commentary.
So funny, yes. I tend to use the words 'vi' and 'vim' interchangeably and I was debating if I should make that distinction on this blog.
True story, I used vi proper for almost 10 years and for 8 of those years at work on an old RedHat Workstation distribution. A time came where all our work machines got upgraded to Ubuntu and I ended up with vim on my machine (I think it was vim-tiny). I wasn't familiar with visual mode. Everytime I accidentally hit CTRL + v, I would quickly ESC out because I didn't know what it was doing.
3 months ago, I decided to finally make the small effort to learn visual mode.
I love how you can learn new things all the time even in the tools you've been using forever!
Thanks for the comments!
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I use a plugin to do this because different languages have different requirements for comments and I'm lazy). I use commentary but there are a few that all do much the same thing.
Out of your options, I prefer #3, but I'd also consider using a macro and repeating it n times if the comments required changing the start and end of the line, like in CSS.
Using ctrl-smilieface to enter pedantic mode I feel the urge to point out that #3 is Vim only and not available in Vi.
I haven't had a lot of experiences with different plugins, but I will have to check out commentary.
So funny, yes. I tend to use the words 'vi' and 'vim' interchangeably and I was debating if I should make that distinction on this blog.
True story, I used
viproper for almost 10 years and for 8 of those years at work on an old RedHat Workstation distribution. A time came where all our work machines got upgraded to Ubuntu and I ended up withvimon my machine (I think it was vim-tiny). I wasn't familiar with visual mode. Everytime I accidentally hit CTRL + v, I would quicklyESCout because I didn't know what it was doing.3 months ago, I decided to finally make the small effort to learn visual mode.
I love how you can learn new things all the time even in the tools you've been using forever!
Thanks for the comments!