Until yesterday, my first Perl code got some problem and had to seek help from the IRC channel perl-help @ irc.perl.org (these guys are really helpful, thanks dudes!). Just when they were helping me to solve the problem, Caelum tip me on how to block comment in Perl using vim. I thought it was a good idea as it doesn't need to load additional module to handle the block comment thing, which save some CPU processing.
Here it is :
1. While editing the Perl program in vim, press Ctrl-v to enter "visual block" mode.
2. Move the cursor downwards / upwards so that it marks the lines, for comments.
3. Activate "insert" mode with beginning of the line (shift "i" and not "i" only).
4. Type the "#" character.
5. End the insert mode with "esc" key
6. After a second, the lines marked in step 2 are all commented.
Voilla !!!
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You can also use pod for comments:
print "something";
=begin comment
print "this is not executed";
=cut
print "Here we go again";
Hi Peter,
Hmm, you're right... But coming from Bash script, the "#" comment seems more obvious to my eyes ... :P
Thanks for the suggestion though. now i know of another alternative to comment. :)
Regards.
I have a simple Perl script (http://gist.github.com/193541) I use for this and I call it from vim. It's called "comment". I also symlink it to be "uncomment" as well and it changes based on how it's called. Not only does it work for Perl, but also works for HTML, CSS, Javascript, C, etc. So after you've highlighted your lines you can just say:
:!comment
which will comment Perl by default
Or
:!comment css
Which will do CSS. And then when you want to uncomment that block...
:!uncomment css
I know there's a vim plugin that will do something like this too, but it requires that you learn some new key bindings and also doesn't handle files that have multiple languages in them (like HTML files with CSS or Javascript).
Hi Michael,
That's very generous of you to help out! I'll sure give it a try, thanks dude. :)
Regards.
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