Delete comment operator(#) from beginning of selected lines

Question

I want to remove # from line 79 to 91

Answer 1

You can use the Visual-Block mode:

• Enter in Visual-Block mode with Ctrlv,
• select the first column and
• Hit d.

But you have also plugins like nerdcommenter (preservim/nerdcommenter) to help you with that.

Answer 2

There's different ways to do this.

A solution:

:79,91g/^#/normal x

g applies a command on the given range. In this case we just delete the first character.

^# filters line to keep only those starting with a #.

You could also select your lines visually then hit :g.... This will automatically limit the command to your selection.

Answer 3

:79,91 s/^.//

would be my natural answer.

although you did say 'selected' code, which suggests that

:s/^.// would work, although it will show up as

:'<,'>s/^.//

This deletes the first character regardless of if it's a #, which is fine here, but might not be what you want in general.