[Tutor] Commenting a big block of code

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:18:42AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 19-Sep-2001 Girish Gajwani wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I wish to comment out a big block of code. It is rather
> > painful to go and insert a "#" in front of each line of
> > code. 
> > 
> > Is there any "Block Comment" feature or perhaps someone
> > would just send me a VIM macro which I can use to select a
> > block of code in visual mode & then use some key mapped to
> > the macro & within a blink of an eye find all the lines
> > commented out.
> > 
> > For now, I am just cutting out these lines & putting them in
> > a temporary area from where I retrieve them as necessary.
> > 
> 
> if you could grab the excellent O'reilly vi book you would learn all of this
> and more.  learning your editor can make you marvelously more productive,
> regardless of the editor.

There is a vim book out, too by steve oualline, who also wrote "practical
c" book.

> 
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