Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 13 Feb 2009, at 00:53, Philip Webb wrote:

> 090212 Stroller quoted:
>> In vim, you can just select the rectangular region with Ctrl-v,
>> then type "I#<ESC>".  This will insert # in each line at the same  
>> column.
>
> If you want to comment a series of lines  m-n , it's quicker to do :
>
>  :m,ns/^/#/

I saw similar comments in my Google searches, but I am flummoxed how  
one could find it so.

Is it only on my keyboard that forward-slash is a "lower-case"  
character that is accessed *without* the shift key deployed?

How do you know m & n? Surely it's easier just to highlight the lines?

Stroller.