*NERD_commenter.txt* Plugin for commenting code NERD COMMENTER REFERENCE MANUAL~ ============================================================================== CONTENTS *NERDCommenterContents* 1.Intro...................................|NERDCommenter| 2.Functionality provided..................|NERDComFunctionality| 2.1 Functionality Summary.............|NERDComFunctionalitySummary| 2.2 Functionality Details.............|NERDComFunctionalityDetails| 2.2.1 Comment map.................|NERDComComment| 2.2.2 Nested comment map..........|NERDComNestedComment| 2.2.3 Toggle comment map..........|NERDComToggleComment| 2.2.4 Minimal comment map.........|NERDComMinimalComment| 2.2.5 Invert comment map..........|NERDComInvertComment| 2.2.6 Sexy comment map............|NERDComSexyComment| 2.2.7 Yank comment map............|NERDComYankComment| 2.2.8 Comment to EOL map..........|NERDComEOLComment| 2.2.9 Append com to line map......|NERDComAppendComment| 2.2.10 Prepend com to line map....|NERDComPrependComment| 2.2.11 Insert comment map.........|NERDComInsertComment| 2.2.12 Use alternate delims map...|NERDComAltDelim| 2.2.13 Comment aligned maps.......|NERDComAlignedComment| 2.2.14 Uncomment line map.........|NERDComUncommentLine| 2.3 Supported filetypes...............|NERDComFiletypes| 2.4 Sexy Comments.....................|NERDComSexyComments| 2.5 The NERDComment function..........|NERDComNERDComment| 3.Options.................................|NERDComOptions| 3.1 Options summary...................|NERDComOptionsSummary| 3.2 Options details...................|NERDComOptionsDetails| 3.3 Default delimiter Options.........|NERDComDefaultDelims| 3.4 Key mapping Options...............|NERDComMappings| 4.Issues with the script..................|NERDComIssues| 4.1 Delimiter detection heuristics....|NERDComHeuristics| 4.2 Nesting issues....................|NERDComNesting| 5.The author..............................|NERDComAuthor| 6.Changelog...............................|NERDComChangelog| 7.Credits.................................|NERDComCredits| 8.License.................................|NERDComLicense| ============================================================================== 1. Intro *NERDCommenter* The NERD commenter provides many different commenting operations and styles which may be invoked via key mappings and a commenting menu. These operations are available for most filetypes. There are also options available that allow you to tweak the commenting engine to you taste. ============================================================================== 2. Functionality provided *NERDComFunctionality* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.1 Functionality summary *NERDComFunctionalitySummary* The following key mappings are provided by default (there is also a menu provided that contains menu items corresponding to all the below mappings): Most of the following mappings are for normal/visual mode only. The |NERDComInsertComment| mapping is for insert mode only. [count],cc |NERDComComment| Comments out the current line or text selected in visual mode. [count],cn |NERDComNestedComment| Same as |NERDComComment| but forces nesting. [count],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],cm |NERDComMinimalComment| Comments the given lines using only one set of multipart delimiters if possible. [count],ci |NERDComInvertComment| Toggles the comment state of the selected line(s) individually. Each selected line that is commented is uncommented and vice versa. [count],cs |NERDComSexyComment| Comments out the selected lines ``sexily'' [count],cy |NERDComYankComment| Same as |NERDComComment| except that the commented line(s) are yanked before commenting. ,c$ |NERDComEOLComment| Comments the current line from the cursor to the end of line. ,cA |NERDComAppendComment| Adds comment delimiters to the end of line and goes into insert mode between them. ,cI |NERDComPrependComment| Adds comment delimiters to the start of line and goes into insert mode between them. |NERDComInsertComment| Adds comment delimiters at the current cursor position and inserts between. ,ca |NERDComAltDelim| Switches to the alternative set of delimiters. [count],cl [count],cr [count],cb |NERDComAlignedComment| Same as |NERDComComment| except that the delimiters are aligned down the left side (,cl), the right side (,cr) or both sides (,cb). [count],cu |NERDComUncommentLine| Uncomments the selected line(s). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2 Functionality details *NERDComFunctionalityDetails* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.1 Comment map *NERDComComment* Default mapping: [count],cc Change the mapping with: NERDComLineMap. Applicable modes: normal visual visual-line visual-block. Comments out the current line. If multiple lines are selected in visual-line mode, they are all commented out. If some text is selected in visual or visual-block mode then the script will try to comment out the exact text that is selected using multi-part delimiters if they are available. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.2 Nested comment map *NERDComNestedComment* Default mapping: [count],cn Change the mapping with: NERDComLineNestMap. Applicable modes: normal visual visual-line visual-block. Performs nested commenting. Works the same as ,cc except that if a line is already commented then it will be commented again. If |NERDUsePlaceHolders| is set then the previous comment delimiters will be replaced by place-holder delimiters if needed. Otherwise the nested comment will only be added if the current commenting delimiters have no right delimiter (to avoid syntax errors) If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. Related options: |NERDDefaultNesting| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.3 Toggle comment map *NERDComToggleComment* Default mapping: [count],c Change the mapping with: NERDComLineToggleMap. Applicable modes: normal visual-line. Toggles commenting of the lines selected. The behaviour of this mapping depends on whether the first line selected is commented or not. If so, all selected lines are uncommented and vice versa. With this mapping, a line is only considered to be commented if it starts with a left delimiter. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.4 Minimal comment map *NERDComMinimalComment* Default mapping: [count],cm Change the mapping with: NERDComLineMinimalMap Applicable modes: normal visual-line. Comments the selected lines using one set of multipart delimiters if possible. For example: if you are programming in c and you select 5 lines and press ,cm then a '/*' will be placed at the start of the top line and a '*/' will be placed at the end of the last line. Sets of multipart comment delimiters that are between the top and bottom selected lines are replaced with place holders (see |NERDLPlace|) if |NERDUsePlaceHolders| is set for the current filetype. If it is not, then the comment will be aborted if place holders are required to prevent illegal syntax. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.5 Invert comment map *NERDComInvertComment* Default mapping: ,ci Change the mapping with: NERDComLineInvertMap. Applicable modes: normal visual-line. Inverts the commented state of each selected line. If the a selected line is commented then it is uncommented and vice versa. Each line is examined and commented/uncommented individually. With this mapping, a line is only considered to be commented if it starts with a left delimiter. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.6 Sexy comment map *NERDComSexyComment* Default mapping: [count],cs Change the mapping with: NERDComLineSexyMap Applicable modes: normal, visual-line. Comments the selected line(s) ``sexily''... see |NERDComSexyComments| for a description of what sexy comments are. Can only be done on filetypes for which there is at least one set of multipart comment delimiters specified. Sexy comments cannot be nested and lines inside a sexy comment cannot be commented again. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. Related options: |NERDCompactSexyComs| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.7 Yank comment map *NERDComYankComment* Default mapping: [count],cy Change the mapping with: NERDComLineYankMap Applicable modes: normal visual visual-line visual-block. Same as ,cc except that it yanks the line(s) that are commented first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.8 Comment to EOL map *NERDComEOLComment* Default mapping: ,c$ Change the mapping with: NERDComToEOLMap Applicable modes: normal. Comments the current line from the current cursor position up to the end of the line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.9 Append com to line map *NERDComAppendComment* Default mapping: ,cA Change the mapping with: NERDAppendComMap. Applicable modes: normal. Appends comment delimiters to the end of the current line and goes to insert mode between the new delimiters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.10 Prepend com to line map *NERDComPrependComment* Default mapping: ,cI Change the mapping with: NERDPrependComMap. Applicable modes: normal. Prepends comment delimiters to the start of the current line and goes to insert mode between the new delimiters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.11 Insert comment map *NERDComInsertComment* Default mapping: Change the mapping with: NERDComInInsertMap. Applicable modes: insert. Adds comment delimiters at the current cursor position and inserts between them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.12 Use alternate delims map *NERDComAltDelim* Default mapping: ,ca Change the mapping with: NERDAltComMap Applicable modes: normal. Changes to the alternative commenting style if one is available. For example, if the user is editing a c++ file using // comments and they hit ,ca then they will be switched over to /**/ comments. See also |NERDComDefaultDelims| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.13 Comment aligned maps *NERDComAlignedComment* Default mappings: [count],cl [count],cr [count],cb Change the mappings with: NERDComAlignLeftMap, NERDComAlignRightMap and NERDComAlignBothMap. Applicable modes: normal visual-line. Same as ,cc except that the comment delimiters are aligned on the left side, right side or both sides respectively. These comments are always nested if the line(s) are already commented. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2.14 Uncomment line map *NERDComUncommentLine* Default mapping: [count],cu Change the mapping with: NERDUncomLineMap. Applicable modes: normal visual visual-line visual-block. Uncomments the current line. If multiple lines are selected in visual mode then they are all uncommented. When uncommenting, if the line contains multiple sets of delimiters then the ``outtermost'' pair of delimiters will be removed. The script uses a set of heurisics to distinguish ``real'' delimiters from ``fake'' ones when uncommenting. See |NERDComIssues| for details. If a [count] is given in normal mode, the mapping works as though that many lines were selected in visual-line mode. Related options: |NERDRemoveAltComs| |NERDRemoveExtraSpaces| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.3 Supported filetypes *NERDComFiletypes* Filetypes that can be commented by this plugin: abaqus abc acedb ada ahdl amiga aml ampl ant apache apachestyle asm68k asm asn aspvbs atlas autohotkey autoit automake ave awk basic b bc bdf bib bindzone bst btm caos catalog c cfg cg ch changelog cl clean clipper cmake conf config context cpp crontab cs csc csp css cterm cupl csv cvs dcl debchangelog debcontrol debsources def diff django docbk dns dosbatch dosini dot dracula dsl dtd dtml dylan ecd eiffel elf elmfilt erlang eruby eterm expect exports fetchmail fgl focexec form fortran foxpro fstab fvwm fx gdb gdmo geek gentoo-package-keywords' gentoo-package-mask' gentoo-package-use' gnuplot gtkrc haskell hb h help hercules hog html htmldjango htmlos ia64 icon idlang idl indent inform inittab ishd iss ist jam java javascript jess jgraph jproperties jproperties jsp kconfig kix kscript lace lex lftp lifelines lilo lisp lite lotos lout lprolog lscript lss lua lynx m4 mail make maple masm master matlab mel mf mib mma model moduala. modula2 modula3 monk mush muttrc named nasm nastran natural ncf netdict netrw nqc nroff nsis objc ocaml occam omlet omnimark openroad opl ora otl ox pascal passwd pcap pccts perl pfmain php phtml pic pike pilrc pine plaintex plm plsql po postscr pov povini ppd ppwiz procmail progress prolog psf ptcap python python qf radiance ratpoison r rc readline rebol registry remind rexx robots rpl rtf ruby sa samba sas sass sather scheme scilab screen scsh sdl sed selectbuf sgml sgmldecl sgmllnx sh sicad simula sinda skill slang sl slrnrc sm smarty smil smith sml snnsnet snnspat snnsres snobol4 spec specman spice sql sqlforms sqlj sqr squid st stp strace svn systemverilog tads taglist tags tak tasm tcl terminfo tex text plaintex texinfo texmf tf tidy tli trasys tsalt tsscl tssgm uc uil vb verilog verilog_systemverilog vgrindefs vhdl vim viminfo virata vo_base vrml vsejcl webmacro wget winbatch wml wvdial xdefaults xf86conf xhtml xkb xmath xml xmodmap xpm2 xpm xslt yacc yaml z8a If a language is not in the list of hardcoded supported filetypes then the &commentstring vim option is used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.4 Sexy Comments *NERDComSexyComments* These are comments that use one set of multipart comment delimiters as well as one other marker symbol. For example: > /* * This is a c style sexy comment * So there! */ /* This is a c style sexy comment * So there! * But this one is ``compact'' style */ < Here the multipart delimiters are /* and */ and the marker is *. The NERD commenter is capable of adding and removing comments of this type. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.5 The NERDComment function *NERDComNERDComment* All of the NERD commenter mappings and menu items invoke a single function which delegates the commenting work to other functions. This function is public and has the prototype: > function! NERDComment(isVisual, type) < The arguments to this function are simple: - isVisual: if you wish to do any kind of visual comment then set this to 1 and the function will use the '< and '> marks to find the comment boundries. If set to 0 then the function will operate on the current line. - type: is used to specify what type of commenting operation is to be performed, and it can be one of the following: 'sexy', 'invert', 'minimal', 'toggle', 'alignLeft', 'alignRight', 'alignBoth', 'norm', 'nested', 'toEOL', 'prepend', 'append', 'insert', 'uncomment', 'yank' For example, if you typed > :call NERDComment(1, 'sexy') < then the script would do a sexy comment on the last visual selection. ============================================================================== 3. Options *NERDComOptions* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.1 Options summary *NERDComOptionsSummary* |loaded_nerd_comments| Turns off the script. |NERDAllowAnyVisualDelims| Allows multipart alternative delims to be used when commenting in visual/visual-block mode. |NERDBlockComIgnoreEmpty| Forces right delims to be placed when doing visual-block comments. |NERDCommentWholeLinesInVMode| Changes behaviour of visual comments. |NERDDefaultNesting| Tells the script to use nested comments by default. |NERDMenuMode| Specifies how the NERD commenter menu will appear (if at all). |NERDLPlace| Specifies what to use as the left delimiter placeholder when nesting comments. |NERDMapleader| Specifies what all the commenting key mappings will begin with. |NERDUsePlaceHolders| Specifies which filetypes may use placeholders when nesting comments. |NERDRemoveAltComs| Tells the script whether to remove alternative comment delimiters when uncommenting. |NERDRemoveExtraSpaces| Tells the script to always remove the extra spaces when uncommenting (regardless of whether NERDSpaceDelims is set) |NERDRPlace| Specifies what to use as the right delimiter placeholder when nesting comments. |NERDShutUp| Stops "Unknown filetype" output from the script |NERDSpaceDelims| Specifies whether to add extra spaces around delimiters when commenting, and whether to remove them when uncommenting. |NERDCompactSexyComs| Specifies whether to use the compact style sexy comments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.3 Options details *NERDComOptionsDetails* To enable any of the below options you should put the given line in your ~/.vimrc *loaded_nerd_comments* If this script is driving you insane you can turn it off by setting this option > let loaded_nerd_comments=1 < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDAllowAnyVisualDelims* Values: 0 or 1. Default: 1. If set to 1 then, when doing a visual or visual-block comment (but not a visual-line comment), the script will choose the right delimiters to use for the comment. This means either using the current delimiters if they are multipart or using the alternative delimiters if THEY are multipart. For example if we are editing the following java code: > float foo = 1221; float bar = 324; System.out.println(foo * bar); < If we are using // comments and select the "foo" and "bar" in visual-block mode, as shown left below (where '|'s are used to represent the visual-block boundary), and comment it then the script will use the alternative delims as shown on the right: > float |foo| = 1221; float /*foo*/ = 1221; float |bar| = 324; float /*bar*/ = 324; System.out.println(foo * bar); System.out.println(foo * bar); < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDBlockComIgnoreEmpty* Values: 0 or 1. Default: 1. This option affects visual-block mode commenting. If this option is turned on, lines that begin outside the right boundary of the selection block will be ignored. For example, if you are commenting this chunk of c code in visual-block mode (where the '|'s are used to represent the visual-block boundary) > #include #include #include |int| main(){ | | printf("SUCK THIS\n"); | | while(1){ | | fork(); | | } |} | < If NERDBlockComIgnoreEmpty=0 then this code will become: > #include #include #include /*int*/ main(){ /* */ printf("SUCK THIS\n"); /* */ while(1){ /* */ fork(); /* */ } /*} */ < Otherwise, the code block would become: > #include #include #include /*int*/ main(){ printf("SUCK THIS\n"); while(1){ fork(); } /*} */ < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDCommentWholeLinesInVMode* Values: 0, 1 or 2. Default: 0. By default the script tries to comment out exactly what is selected in visual mode (v). For example if you select and comment the following c code (using | to represent the visual boundary): > in|t foo = 3; int bar =| 9; int baz = foo + bar; < This will result in: > in/*t foo = 3;*/ /*int bar =*/ 9; int baz = foo + bar; < But some people prefer it if the whole lines are commented like: > /*int foo = 3;*/ /*int bar = 9;*/ int baz = foo + bar; < If you prefer the second option then stick this line in your vimrc: > let NERDCommentWholeLinesInVMode=1 < If the filetype you are editing only has no multipart delimiters (for example a shell script) and you hadnt set this option then the above would become > in#t foo = 3; #int bar = 9; < (where # is the comment delimiter) as this is the closest the script can come to commenting out exactly what was selected. If you prefer for whole lines to be commented out when there is no multipart delimiters but the EXACT text that was selected to be commented out if there IS multipart delimiters then stick the following line in your vimrc: > let NERDCommentWholeLinesInVMode=2 < Note that this option does not affect the behaviour of |visual-block| mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDRemoveAltComs* Values: 0 or 1. Default: 1. When uncommenting a line (for a filetype with an alternative commenting style) this option tells the script whether to look for, and remove, comments delimiters of the alternative style. For example, if you are editing a c++ file using // style comments and you go ,cu on this line: > /* This is a c++ comment baby! */ < It will not be uncommented if the NERDRemoveAltComs is set to 0. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDRemoveExtraSpaces* Values: 0 or 1. Default: 1. By default, the NERD commenter will remove spaces around comment delimiters if either: 1. |NERDSpaceDelims| is set to 1. 2. NERDRemoveExtraSpaces is set to 1. This means that if we have the following lines in a c code file: > /* int foo = 5; */ /* int bar = 10; */ int baz = foo + bar < If either of the above conditions hold then if these lines are uncommented they will become: > int foo = 5; int bar = 10; int baz = foo + bar < Otherwise they would become: > int foo = 5; int bar = 10; int baz = foo + bar < If you want the spaces to be removed only if |NERDSpaceDelims| is set then set NERDRemoveExtraSpaces to 0. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDLPlace* *NERDRPlace* Values: arbitrary string. Default: NERDLPlace: "[>" NERDRPlace: "<]" These options are used to control the strings used as place-holder delimiters. Place holder delimiters are used when performing nested commenting when the filetype supports commenting styles with both left and right delimiters. To set these options use lines like: > let NERDLPlace="FOO" let NERDRPlace="BAR" < Following the above example, if we have line of c code: > /* int horse */ < and we comment it with ,cn it will be changed to: > /*FOO int horse BAR*/ < When we uncomment this line it will go back to what it was. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDMapleader* Values: arbitrary string. Default: \c NERDMapleader is used to specify what all the NERD commenter key mappings begin with. The default key mappings will look like this: > \cc \cu \ca \ci \cs ... < However, if this line: > let NERDMapleader = ',x' < were present in your vimrc then the default mappings would look like this: > ,xc ,xu ,xa ,xi ,xs ... < This option only affects the mappings that have not been explicitly set manually (see |NERDComMappings|). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDMenuMode* Values: 0, 1, 2, 3. Default: 3 This option can take 4 values: "0": Turns the menu off. "1": Turns the 'comment' menu on with no menu shortcut. "2": Turns the 'comment 'menu on with -c as the shortcut. "3": Turns the 'Plugin -> comment' menu on with -c as the shortcut. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDUsePlaceHolders* Values: 0 or 1. Default 1. This option is used to specify whether place-holder delimiters should be used when adding nested comments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDShutUp* Values: 0 or 1. Default 1. This option is used to prevent the script from echoing "Unknown filetype" messages. Stick this line in your vimrc: > let NERDShutUp=1 < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDSpaceDelims* Values: 0 or 1. Default 0. Some people prefer a space after the left delimiter and before the right delimiter like this: > /* int foo=2; */ < as opposed to this: > /*int foo=2;*/ < If you want spaces to be added then set NERDSpaceDelims to 1 in your vimrc. See also |NERDRemoveExtraSpaces|. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDCompactSexyComs* Values: 0 or 1. Default 0. Some people may want their sexy comments to be like this: > /* Hi There! * This is a sexy comment * in c */ < As opposed to like this: > /* * Hi There! * This is a sexy comment * in c */ < If this option is set to 1 then the top style will be used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NERDDefaultNesting* Values: 0 or 1. Default 1. When this option is set to 1, comments are nested automatically. That is, if you hit ,cc on a line that is already commented it will be commented again ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.3 Default delimiter customisation *NERDComDefaultDelims* If you want the NERD commenter to use the alternative delimiters for a specific filetype by default then put a line of this form into your vimrc: > let NERD_<&filetype>_alt_style=1 < Example: java uses // style comments by default, but you want it to default to /* */ style comments instead. You would put this line in your vimrc: > let NERD_java_alt_style=1 < See |NERDComAltDelim| for switching commenting styles at runtime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.4 Key mapping customisation *NERDComMappings* These options are used to override the default keys that are used for the commenting mappings. Their values must be set to strings. As an example: if you wanted to use the mapping ,foo to uncomment lines of code then you would place this line in your vimrc > let NERDUncomLineMap=",foo" < Check out |NERDComFunctionality| for details about what the following mappings do. Default Mapping Option to override~ ,ca NERDAltComMap ,ce NERDAppendComMap ,cl NERDComAlignLeftMap ,cb NERDComAlignBothMap ,cr NERDComAlignRightMap NERDComInInsertMap ,ci NERDComLineInvertMap ,cc NERDComLineMap ,cn NERDComLineNestMap ,cs NERDComLineSexyMap ,c NERDComLineToggleMap ,cm NERDComLineMinimalMap ,c$ NERDComToEOLMap ,cy NERDComLineYankMap ,cu NERDUncomLineMap ============================================================================== 4. Issues with the script *NERDComIssues* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.1 Delimiter detection heuristics *NERDComHeuristics* Heuristics are used to distinguish the real comment delimiters Because we have comment mappings that place delimiters in the middle of lines, removing comment delimiters is a bit tricky. This is because if comment delimiters appear in a line doesnt mean they really ARE delimiters. For example, Java uses // comments but the line > System.out.println("//"); < clearly contains no real comment delimiters. To distinguish between ``real'' comment delimiters and ``fake'' ones we use a set of heuristics. For example, one such heuristic states that any comment delimiter that has an odd number of non-escaped " characters both preceding and following it on the line is not a comment because it is probably part of a string. These heuristics, while usually pretty accurate, will not work for all cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.2 Nesting issues *NERDComNesting* If we have some line of code like this: > /*int foo */ = /*5 + 9;*/ < This will not be uncommented legally. The NERD commenter will remove the "outter most" delimiters so the line will become: > int foo */ = /*5 + 9; < which almost certainly will not be what you want. Nested sets of comments will uncomment fine though. Eg: > /*int/* foo =*/ 5 + 9;*/ < will become: > int/* foo =*/ 5 + 9; < (Note that in the above examples I have deliberately not used place holders for simplicity) ============================================================================== 5. The author *NERDComAuthor* The author of the NERD commenter is Martyzillatron --- the half robot, half dinosaur bastard son of Megatron and Godzilla. He enjoys destroying metropolises and eating tourist busses. Drop him a line at martin_grenfell at msn.com. He would love to hear from you. its a lonely life being the worlds premier terror machine. How would you feel if your face looked like a toaster and a t-rex put together? :( ============================================================================== 7. Changelog *NERDComChangelog* 2.1.16 - compatibility fix for vim7.2, cheers to Ben Schmidt, David Fishburn, and Erik Falor for the emails, and to JaGoTerr for posting the issue. 2.1.15 - added pamconf support, thanks to Martin Kustermann - added mason support, thanks to Indriði Einarsson - added map support, thanks to Chris - added bzr support, thanks to Stromnov - added group support, thanks to Krzysztof A. Adamski - change license to wtfpl 2.1.14 - added support for gitconfig, tar, nerdtree - added support for dtrace, thanks to nicothakis for the post 2.1.13 - added support for rib, pyrex/cython, liquid, services, gitcommit, vimperator, and slice. Thanks to spookypeanut, Greg Jandl, Christophe Benz, A Pontus, and Stromnov for emailing me and/or posting issues. - set the NERDRemoveExtraSpaces option to 1 by default as the doc states - other fixes: (thanks to Zhang Shuhan for all his emails and testing) * made the sexy comment mapping fall back to normal commenting if sexy comments arent possible for the current filetype * fixed some bugs with sexy comments * made the uncommenting side of toggle comments slightly more robust * fixed a bug where some extra spaces werent being removed (although the currect options were set) 2.1.12 - added support for patran and dakota, thx to Jacobo Diaz for the email - added support for gentoo-env-d, gentoo-init-d, gentoo-make-conf, grub, modconf and sudoers filetypes, thx to Li Jin for the patch. - added support for SVNdiff, gitAnnotate, gitdiff. Thx to nicothakis for posting the issue 2.1.11 - fixed a bug with the selection option and visual commenting (again). Thanks to Ingo Karkat (again). 2.1.10 - added support for Wikipedia (thanks to Chen Xing) - added support for mplayerconf - bugfixes (thanks to Ingo Karkat for the bug report/patch) - added support for mkd (thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli) 2.1.9 - added support for mrxvtrc and aap, thx to Marco for the emails - added dummy support for SVNAnnotate, SVKAnnotate and CVSAnnotate, thx to nicothakis for posting the issue 2.1.8 - fixed a couple of bugs with the NERDSpaceDelims option, thx to David Miani and Jeremy Hinegardner - added dummy support for lhaskell, thx to pipp for posting the issue - added an alternative set of delims for the plsql filetype, thx to Kuchma Michael - added support for spectre, thx to Brett Warneke - added support for scala, thx to Renald Buter - added support for asymptote, thx to Vladimir Lomov - made NERDDefaultNesting enabled by default as this seems more intuitive, thx to marco for the suggestion 2.1.7 - added support for haml, thx to Greb Weber - added support for asterisk, thx to Laurent ARNOUD - added support for objcpp, thx to Nicolas Weber - added support for the factor filetype, thx to Aaron Schaefer - fixed a bug with the passwd filetype setup, thx to Yongwei Wu - fixed a bug that was forcing filetypes with an alternative set of delims to have at least one multipart set. - split out the help file out from the script and repackaged everything as a zip 2.1.6 - added support for gentoo-conf-d thanks to tinoucas for posting the issue and the patch - added support for the D filetype. Thanks to Greg Weber for the email. - added dummy support for cobol, cheers to timberke for posting the issue. - added support for velocity. Thanks to Bruce Sherrod for the email. 2.1.5 - added support for lilypond, bbx and lytex. Thanks to Eyolf Østrem for the email. - added an alterative set of delimiters for the dosbatch filetype, thanks to Ingo Karkat for the email. - added support for the markdown filetype. Thanks to Nicolas Weber for the posting the issue. 2.1.4 - added support for the ahk filetype. Cheers to Don Hatlestad for the email. - added support for desktop and xsd filetypes. Thanks to Christophe Benz. - added dummy support for Rails-log - fixed a bunch of bugs in the comment delimiter setup process, thanks to Cheng Fang for the email :D - hardcore refactoring and removal of seldomly used, overly-complex functionality. - the script now requires vim 7 2.1.3 - fixed numerous bugs that were causing tabs to permanently be converted to spaces, even if noexpandtab was set. Thanks to Heptite on #vim for working with me to track them down :) - added dummy support for "lookupfile". Thanks to David Fishburn for the email. - added support for "rst", thanks to Niels Aan de Brugh for the email. 2.1.2 - added support for the vera and ldif filetypes. Thanks to Normandie Azucena and Florian Apolloner for the emails. 2.1.1 - added dummy support for SVNcommitlog and vcscommit. Thanks to John O'Shea for the email. - added support for Groovy. Thanks to Jason Mills for the email. 2.1.0 - now the script resets the delimiters when the filetype of the buffer changes (thanks to James Hales for the patch) - added formal support/doc for prepending a count to many of the commenting maps so you can go, eg, 5,cc to comment 5 lines from normal mode. Thanks again to James Hales for the patch. - added support for the "gams" filetype that Jorge Rodrigues created. - added support for the "objc" filetype, thanks to Rainer Müller for the email. - added support for the "sass" filetype that Dmitry Ilyashevich created. 2.0.7 - Added support for eclass and ebuild filetypes. Thanks to Alex Tarkovsky for the email. 2.0.6 - Changed the default setting of NERDMapleader to ",c", meaning all the maps now start with ,c instead of \c. This is to stop a major mapping clash with the vcscommand plugin. Anyone wanting to keep the \c map leader should read :help NERDMapleader. - Added support for debcontrol and dummy support for debchangelog filetypes, thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli for the email. - Made it so that the NERDShutUp option now only controls the "Pleeease email the delimiters..." requests. It no longer affects the general output of the script. - Simplified the names of the help tags. 2.0.5 - Added support for autoit, autohotkey and docbk filetypes (thanks to Michael Böhler) - Added support for cmake (thanks to Aaron Small) - Added support for htmldjango and django filetypes (thanks to Ramiro Morales) - Improved the delimiters for eruby again - Applied a patch from Seth Mason to fix some pathing issues with the help file installation. 2.0.4 - Added support for verilog_systemverilog and systemverilog filetypes (Thanks to Alexey for the email) - Added support for fstab, thanks to Lizendir for the email. - Added support for the smarty filetype. - Improved the delimiters for eruby. - Added dummy support for changelog filetype. 2.0.3 - Added dummy support for the csv filetype (thx to Mark Woodward for the email) - Added dummy support for vo_base and otl filetypes (thanks to fREW for the email) 2.0.2: - Minor bug fix that was stopping nested comments from working 2.0.1: - Fixed the visual bell for the |NERDComToEOLMap| map. - Added another possible value to the NERDMenuMode option which causes the menu to be displayed under 'Plugin -> Comment'. See :h NERDMenuMode. This new menu mode is now the default. - Added support for the occam filetype (thanks to Anders for emailing me) - Made the main commenting function (NERDComment) available outside the script. - bug fixes and refactoring 2.0.0: - NOTE: renamed the script to NERD_commenter.vim. When you install this version you must delete the old files: NERD_comments.vim and NERD_comments.txt. - Reworked the mappings and main entry point function for the script to avoid causing visual-bells and screen scrolling. - Changes to the script options (see |NERD_com-Customisation| for details): - They are all camel case now instead of underscored. - Converted all of the regular expression options into simple boolean options for simplicity. - All the options are now stated positively, eg. NERD_dont_remove_spaces_regexp has become NERDRemoveExtraSpaces. - Some of the option names have been changed (other than in the above ways) - Some have been removed altogether, namely: NERD_create_h_filetype (why was a commenting script creating a filetype?!), NERD_left_align_regexp, NERD_right_align_regexp, - Removed all the NERD_use_alt_style_XXX_coms options and replaced them with a better system. Now if a filetype has alternative delims, the script will check whether an option of the form "NERD_<&filetype>_alt_style" exists, and if it does then alt delims will be used. See |NERD_com-cust-delims| for details. - The script no longer removes extra spaces for sexy comments for the NERDRemoveExtraSpaces option (it will still remove spaces if NERDSpaceDelims is set). - Added dummy support for viminfo and rtf. - Added support for the "gentoo-package-$keywords\|mask\|use$" filetypes. - Added '#' comments as an alternative for the asm filetype Thanks to Markus Klinik and Anders for bug reports, and again to Anders for his patch. Thanks to John O'Shea and fREW for the filetype information. ============================================================================== 7. Credits *NERDComCredits* Thanks and respect to the following people: Thanks to Nick Brettell for his many ideas and criticisms. A bloody good bastard. :normal :.-2s/good// Thanks to Matthew Hawkins for his awesome refactoring! Thanks to the authors of the vimspell whose documentation installation function I stole :) Thanks to Greg Searle for the idea of using place-holders for nested comments. Thanks to Nguyen for the suggestions and pointing the h file highlighting bug! Also, thanks for the idea of doing sexy comments as well as his suggestions relating to it :P Thanks again to Nguyen for complaining about the NERD_comments menu mapping (-c) interfering with another mapping of his... and thus the NERD_dont_create_menu_shortcut option was born :P (it was then replaced with NERD_menu_mode in version 1.67 :) Cheers to Litchi for the idea of having a mapping that appends a comment to the current line :) Thanks to jorge scandaliaris and Shufeng Zheng for telling me about some problems with commenting in visual mode. Thanks again to Jorge for his continued suggestions on this matter :) Thanks to Martin Stubenschrott for pointing out a bug with the mapping :) Ive gotta stop breaking this mapping! Thanks to Markus Erlmann for pointing out a conflict that this script was having with the taglist plugin. Thanks to Brent Rice for alerting me about, and helping me track down, a bug in the script when the "ignorecase" option in vim was set. Thanks to Richard Willis for telling me about how line continuation was causing problems on cygwin. Also, thanks pointing out a bug in the help file and for suggesting // comments for c (its about time SOMEONE did :P). May ANSI have mercy on your soul :) Thanks to Igor Prischepoff for suggesting that i implement "toggle comments". Also, thanks for his suggested improvements about toggle comments after i implemented them. Thanks to harry for telling me that i broke the cn mapping in 1.53 :), and thanks again for telling me about a bug that occurred when editing a file in a new tab. Thanks to Martin (Krischikim?) for his patch that fixed a bug with the doc install function and added support for ada comments with spaces as well as making a couple of other small changes. Thanks to David Bourgeois for pointing out a bug with when commenting c files :)... [a few days later] ok i completely misunderstood what David was talking about and ended up fixing a completely different bug to what he was talking about :P Thanks to David Bourgeois for pointing out a bug when changing buffers. Cheers to Eike Von Seggern for sending me a patch to fix a bug in 1.60 that was causing spaces to be added to the end of lines with single-part delimiters. It's nice when people do my work for me :D Thanks to Torsten Blix for telling me about a couple of bugs when uncommenting sexy comments. Sexy comments dont look so sexy when they are only half removed :P Thanks to Alexander "boesi" Bosecke for pointing out a bug that was stopping the NERD_space_delim_filetype_regexp option from working with left aligned toggle comments. And for pointing out a bug when initialising VB comments. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli for suggesting the idea of "Minimal comments". And for suggested improvements to minimal comments. Thanks to Norick Chen for emailing in a patch that fixed the asp delimiters. In 1.65 Thanks to Joseph Barker for the sugesting that the menu be an optional feature. Thanks to Gary Church and Tim Carey-Smith for complaining about the keymappings and causing me to introduce the NERD_mapleader option :) Thanks to Markus Klinik for emailing me about a bug for sexy comments where spaces were being eaten. Thanks to Anders for emailing me a patch to help get rid of all the visual bells and screen scrolling. Thanks to Anders and Markus Klinik for emailing me about the screen scrolling issues and finally getting me off my ass about them :P Thanks to Seth Mason for sending me a patch to fix some pathing issues for the help doc installation. Cheers to James Hales for the patch that made the comment maps work better with counts, and made the script reset comment delims for a buffer when its filetype changes. Cheers to heptite on #vim for helping me track down some tab-space conversion bugs. Cheers to Cheng Fang for the bug reports :D Cheers to Yongwei Wu for a bug report about the passwd filetype. Thanks to David Miani for reporting a space-removal bug when using the NERDSpaceDelims option. Thanks to Jeremy Hinegardner for emailing me about a bug with aligned comments and the NERDSpaceDelims option. Thanks to marco for suggesting NERDDefaultNesting be set by default. Thanks to Ingo Karkat for the bug reports and the bugfix patch. Thanks to Zhang Shuhan for sending me a report about spaces not being removed properly in some circumstances. Also, thanks for emailing me a bunch of bug reports about sexy/toggle comments and for testing my fixes. Thanks to tpope for the english lesson. Thanks to Ben Schmidt, David Fishburn, and Erik Falor for emailing me about an incompatibility with vim7.2. Thanks also to JaGoTerr for posting the issue. Not to forget! Thanks to the following people for sending me new filetypes to support :D The hackers The filetypes~ Sam R verilog Jonathan Derque context, plaintext and mail Vigil fetchmail Michael Brunner kconfig Antono Vasiljev netdict Melissa Reid omlet Ilia N Ternovich quickfix John O'Shea RTF, SVNcommitlog and vcscommit Anders occam Mark Woodward csv fREW gentoo-package-mask, gentoo-package-keywords, gentoo-package-use, and vo_base Alexey verilog_systemverilog, systemverilog Lizendir fstab Michael Böhler autoit, autohotkey and docbk Aaron Small cmake Ramiro htmldjango and django Stefano Zacchiroli debcontrol, debchangelog, mkd Alex Tarkovsky ebuild and eclass Jorge Rodrigues gams Rainer Müller Objective C Jason Mills Groovy Normandie Azucena vera Florian Apolloner ldif David Fishburn lookupfile Niels Aan de Brugh rst Don Hatlestad ahk Christophe Benz Desktop and xsd Eyolf Østrem lilypond, bbx and lytex Ingo Karkat dosbatch Nicolas Weber markdown, objcpp tinoucas gentoo-conf-d Greg Weber D, haml Bruce Sherrod velocity timberke cobol Aaron Schaefer factor Laurent ARNOUD asterisk, mplayerconf Kuchma Michael plsql Brett Warneke spectre Pipp lhaskell Renald Buter scala Vladimir Lomov asymptote Marco mrxvtrc, aap nicothakis SVNAnnotate, CVSAnnotate, SVKAnnotate, SVNdiff, gitAnnotate, gitdiff, dtrace Chen Xing Wikipedia Jacobo Diaz dakota, patran Li Jin gentoo-env-d, gentoo-init-d, gentoo-make-conf, grub, modconf, sudoers SpookeyPeanut rib Greg Jandl pyrex/cython Christophe Benz services, gitcommit A Pontus vimperator Stromnov slice, bzr Martin Kustermann pamconf Indriði Einarsson mason Chris map Krzysztof A. Adamski group ============================================================================== 8. License *NERDComLicense* The NERD commenter is released under the wtfpl. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING.