Surround part of line with comment /* .. */

Question

Is it possible to surround a selected part of a line with /* and */?

start COMMENT ME end
start /*COMMENT ME*/ end

Though a dupe, tpope’s commentary and surround plugins solve cases like this very effectively — D. Ben Knoble, Dec 05 '18 at 18:31
I don't want comment an entire row, i would comment only a part of that with /**/ — Marco Andreolli, Dec 06 '18 at 09:45

Finn · Answer 1 · 2018-12-07T08:16:04.253

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There is a plugin name NerdCommenter provide many ways of commenting, includes /* */: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter

If you just need a quick solution, here is the macro which does the trick:

Update: let @j="viws/*<esc>pa */<esc>"

Let save it to your .vimrc file then using by moving the cursor at the word then @j.

edited Dec 07 '18 at 08:16

answered Dec 06 '18 at 10:56

Finn

I would comment only "foo bar" 123 foo barws/* */<80>kl<80>kl<80>kl^[p 123 – Marco Andreolli Dec 06 '18 at 12:26
@MarcoAndreolli checkout the update, I'm using instead of weird character, it works now. – Finn Dec 07 '18 at 08:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '18 at 14:00

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The simple (redoable version, that messes * register) is

xnoremap µ s/* <c-r>" */<esc>

PS: this is quite certainly a duplicate

answered Dec 05 '18 at 14:00

Luc Hermitte

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '18 at 23:26

You can use either of the following sequences of keystrokes from visual mode to comment out the currently selected text:

c/**/<Esc>hP

c/*<C-R>"*/<Esc>

(Note that the second of these is essentially the same as in Luc Hermitte's mapping. See :help i_CTRL-R if you're not sure how it works.)

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