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How To Comment Out Multiple Lines At Once In Vim Editor

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Senthilkumar
Nov 26, 2019

The other day I was trying to comment out a paragraph in a text file. I am bit lazy to go through each line and comment them out one by one. If you’re anything like me, read on. It is not that difficult. There could be many ways do to this, but here I have listed five methods. As far as I tested, all methods given below worked just fine.

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Senthilkumar

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