Vim tcomment plugin changes the hyphens in untagged text (html) to html code (& #45;)

Question

When editing html in Vim, I'll write the class name of the section that I am working on like this:

mid-med

It is untagged plain text.

I'll call tcomment to comment that out. What I expect to have happen is this:

<!-- mid-med -->

Instead I get this:

<!-- mid&#45;med -->

tcomment is converting the plain-text hyphen into html character code.

Is there anyway to prevent tcomment from doing this?

I searched "help:tcomment" but I couldn't find or make sense of anything.

I could just create the comment code first then type in the text but that's counter-intuitive and messing up my workflow.

Any help would be appreciated.

I can reproduce the problem on a Debian with vim 7.4 (both terminal and gVim). That might not be the best answer possible but you could give a try to nerdCommenter which doesn't have this problem. — statox, Oct 08 '15 at 21:27
I suppose this is, because nested comments are not allowed in HTML/XML. But best would be to use the issue tracker. — Christian Brabandt, Aug 16 '19 at 07:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '15 at 05:54

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Add this to a file ~/.vim/ftplugin/html.vim:

let g:tcomment#replacements_xml = {}

answered Oct 09 '15 at 05:54

Sato Katsura

That do solves the problem but could you detail a little more your answer to explain why it works please? :-) – statox Oct 09 '15 at 06:52
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@statox Not really. It works because the code uses g:tcomment#replacements_xml for translations. Now, why does the code do that for HTML files, is a good question. A question you'd have to ask tcomment's author though. Personally I suspect it's a bug, but the author might disagree. :) – Sato Katsura Oct 09 '15 at 07:12
my pwd was "~/.vim/bundle/html5.vim/ftplugin/html.vim". Solution worked like a charm. Thank you – Derek Dakan Oct 09 '15 at 17:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '19 at 23:27

Just updating the answers to this question, as I encountered this annoyance and I found a solution.

Edit ~/.vim/bundle/tcomment_vim/autoload/tcomment.vim (line ~152):

                "\     '-': '&#45;',
                "\     '&': '&#38;',
                \     '-': '-',
                \     '&': '&',

I.e., simply replace - with - ...

Restart Vim.

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