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

["Joost Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Fri, February 13, 2009 1:37 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:34AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
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>> True, but with this method, you don't use the mouse, just the keyboard:
>> 1) Go to first line
>
> Press gg

Actually meant going to first line of block you want to comment out

>
>> 2) Press <CTRL>+V
>> 3) go to last line
>
> Press G

Ditto, but last line of what you want to comment out

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>> 4) Press <ESC>
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> Why this stage ?

Oops, typo...

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>> 5) Press <SHIFT>+I
>> 6) Press '#'
>> 7) Press <ESC>
>>
>> On my system I then need to move the cursor to actually see the change,
>> is
>> this normal?
>
> I don't have to here with vim72 or gvim. However, I have no idea of how
> to fix this.

I use vim-7.2 as well. Could easily be because it needs that to do a
redraw of the screen.
It's a minor annoyance which I can live with. And as I am the only one
facing this, I don't see the point of raising a bug-report for it.

--
Joost