I want to know how to do some operations on highlighted lines (with v operator) like providing tab to selected line, comment those line, etc. using vi/vim.
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I want to know how to do some operations on highlighted lines (with v operator) like providing tab to selected line, comment those line, etc. using vi/vim.
Most standard operations that require a motion also work in visual mode, so if you select something in one of the visual modes (v, shift-v or ctrl-v), you can indent a line with the
>key, comment those lines by pressing:s@^@# @(which will show:'<,'>s@^@# @on the command line as the visual range is entered automatically).Another way of commenting out blocks is to select them with the column visual select (ctrl-v) and press
Ito insert at the start of the line.There are also a couple of plugins here and here that help with commenting. If you want any more specific information, please can you make your question a bit more detailed as it’s difficult to tell what you really want at the moment.