vim and Python comments

#programming #python

I'm currently undergoing a profound revision (read "cleanup") of my .vimrc and I recently had to choose a decent plug-in to comment python code.

The best so far is EnhancedCommentify. It's highly configurable, powerful and it supports a different number of languages (not only python).

The only one thing that wasn't easy to setup if the behaviour described here: being able to comment a block, respecting the indent, in both visual and normal mode.

A clean solution, without the need to define any function is to stick these lines into your .vimrc:

let g:EnhCommentifyPretty='Yes'
let g:EnhCommentifyRespectIndent='Yes'
let g:EnhCommentifyUserBindings="Yes"
let g:EnhCommentifyUseBlockIndent='Yes'

vmap ,c (Plug)VisualComment
vmap ,d (Plug)VisualDeComment
vmap ,g (Plug)VisualTraditional
vmap ,f (Plug)VisualFirstLine
nmap ,c (Plug)Comment
nmap ,d (Plug)DeComment
nmap ,g (Plug)Traditional
nmap ,f (Plug)FirstLine

(but remember to change "(" to "<" and ")" to ">" -- Wordpress is strict about "<" and ">"...)

Enjoy!