VIM stuff I usually forget

Commenting a number of lines.

There's a vim plugin for that....

vim commentary

The Old ways

First, move the cursor to the first char of the first line in block code you want to comment, then type Ctrl + v.

Then vim will go into VISUAL BLOCK mode.

Use j to move the cursor down until you reach the last line of your code block. Then type: Shift + i

Now vim goes to INSERT mode and the cursor is at the first char of the first line. Finally, type # then ESC and the code block is now commented.

Alternate way I used to use

Select the lines you'd like to comment out Then: :s/^/# /

neovim

Install on debian based distro because the package maintainers don't seem to include virsion .9

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage chmod u+x nvim.appimage ./nvim.appimage

./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract ./squashfs-root/AppRun --version

Optional: exposing nvim globally.

sudo mv squashfs-root / sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim nvim