Another great Vim plugin I use is NERD Commenter. Using this plugin makes it easy to comment out lines of code with just a few keystrokes. By pressing <leader>cc or <leader>c<space> you can comment out your selection using a single comment character per line. With <leader>cm you can comment your selection with one set of multipart delimiters, though your programming language has to support those. Repeat the commands to uncomment your code again. These commands work on single lines as well as on multiple lines which you’ve selected in visual mode (e.g. ranges).
In some cases it can happen that NERD Commenter doesn’t know which comment characters to use which causes it to use comment characters your language doesn’t or may not support. So far this only seems to happen when the filetype can’t be determined by Vim. This can be annoying at times, but I can live with it.
All NERD Commenter commands
For completeness I’ve copied the full command set from its README below. Personally I only use the ones I mentioned earlier. Though I think I’ll go and try to memorize the NERDComYankComment function since that particular case can pop up quite a lot when programming.
[count]<leader>cc |NERDComComment|
Comment out the current line or text selected in visual mode.
[count]<leader>cn |NERDComNestedComment|
Same as <leader>cc but forces nesting.
[count]<leader>c |NERDComToggleComment|
Toggles the comment state of the selected line(s). If the topmost selected line is commented, all selected lines are uncommented and vice versa.
[count]<leader>cm |NERDComMinimalComment|
Comments the given lines using only one set of multipart delimiters.
[count]<leader>ci |NERDComInvertComment|
Toggles the comment state of the selected line(s) individually.
[count]<leader>cs |NERDComSexyComment|
Comments out the selected lines “sexily”
[count]<leader>cy |NERDComYankComment|
Same as <leader>cc except that the commented line(s) are yanked first.
<leader>c$ |NERDComEOLComment|
Comments the current line from the cursor to the end of line.
<leader>cA |NERDComAppendComment|
Adds comment delimiters to the end of line and goes into insert mode between them.
|NERDComInsertComment|
Adds comment delimiters at the current cursor position and inserts between. Disabled by default.
<leader>ca |NERDComAltDelim|
Switches to the alternative set of delimiters.
[count]<leader>cl
[count]<leader>cb |NERDComAlignedComment|
Same as |NERDComComment| except that the delimiters are aligned down the left side (<leader>cl) or both sides (<leader>cb).
[count]<leader>cu |NERDComUncommentLine|
Uncomments the selected line(s).