Comment Ruby code with Vim

Mar 1, 2012

I’ve recently started using Vim for Ruby/Rails development. As someone who is very new to Vim it has been a steep learning curve, but I’m really enjoying it – it has definitely become my editor of choice. One of the useful little tricks I figured out today is how to comment out a block of Ruby code.

Here’s what to do.

  1. Navigate to the beginning of the first line you want to comment
  2. Press Ctrl + v
  3. Select the lines you want to comment with j and k
  4. Press Shift + i
  5. Press #
  6. Press Esc

Voila! If you want to do the opposite follow steps 1 to 3 and then simply press d.

This is really just multi-line editing. Happy coding.