I cannot find a way to comment and uncomment multiple lines of code in Visual Studio Code.
Is it possible to comment and uncomment multiple lines in Visual Studio Code using some shortcut? If yes, how to do it?
Windows: Shift+Alt+A
Linux: Shift+Ctrl+A
Here you can find all the keyboard shortcuts:
PS: I prefer Ctrl+Shift+/ for toggling block comments because Ctrl+/ is shortcut for toggling line comments so it's naturally easier to remember. To do so, just click on the settings icon in the bottom left of the screen and click 'Keyboard Shortcuts' and find "toggle block...". Then click and enter your desired combination.
First, select the lines you want to comment/uncomment (CTRL+L is convenient to select a few lines)
Then:
To toggle line comments, execute editor.action.commentLine (CTRL+/ on Windows) or
To add line comments, execute editor.action.addCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+C) To remove line comments, execute editor.action.removeCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+U) or
To toggle a block comment, execute editor.action.blockComment (SHIFT-ALT-A)
See the official doc : Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
cmd+/
is not a valid shortcut for a German (Mac) keyboard. FWIW: I changed it to { "key": "cmd+shift+7", "command": "editor.action.commentLine", "when": "editorTextFocus" }
to match Atom.
How to comment out multiline / single line in VS Code:
MacOS:
Shift + Option + A:
/* multiline
comment */
CMD + /:
// single line comment
Windows:
Shift + Alt + A:
/* multiline
comment */
CTRL + /:
// single line comment
How to remap / change these shortcuts?
Windows: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
MacOS: Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
You can search through the list both by keybindings (key names) and command names.
Read: How to set shortcuts from another text editor (Sublime, Atom etc)?
Official docs: Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
The keyboard shortcut to comment multiple in Windows is shift+alt+A.
/**/
not the whole line. I'm on Windows 10
In my case, Ubuntu, the shortcut is ctrl+shift+A.
You can see all available keybindings on the official documentation.
Here's the relevant bit for osx:
Key Command
⌘K ⌘C Add Line Comment
⌘K ⌘U Remove Line Comment
⌘/ Toggle Line Comment
⇧⌥A Toggle Block Comment
You will need to select the lines you want to comment first, then execute above shortcut, i.e. ⌘/
on osx Ctrl/
on Windows.
In MacOS
comment out multi-lines in Visual Studio Code by keyboard shortcut:
Option + Shift + A
/*
...
...
*/
Or,
Select all lines and then press CTRL + /
Try option 1 first. If it doesn't work for you then try option 2 which is the actual shortcut for VS Code:
Option 1. Alt / Option + Shift + A
Option 2. While the text is selected hit Ctrl / Cmd+K and then Ctrl / Cmd+C.
As of now (version 1.16.3), you can check all available keyboard shortcuts by going into File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Here you can search for shortcuts related to code comments.
For users who are coming from Sublime Text
or likes to have Ctrl+Shift+/, you can make the change from the above mentioned settings panel or simply install the Sublime Text Keymap
extension by Microsoft.
Update: As VS Code has become pretty much standard editor for almost everything these days, I would say picking option 1 is always helpful.
For my keyboard layout it's Ctrl + § for:
//
//
//
And Shift + Alt + A for:
/*
...
*/
To comment multiple line on visual code use
shift+alt+a
To comment single line use
ctrl + /
For me to comment I use:
Ctrl + k, Ctrl + c
and to uncomment:
Ctrl + k, Ctrl + u
I am using ubuntu 18.0.4
Select all line you want comments CTRL + /
Win10 with French / English Keyboard CTRL + / , ctrl+k+u and ctrl+k+l don't work.
Here's how it works:
/* */ SHIFT + ALT + A // CTRL + É
É key is next to right Shift.
All the key board shorcuts for VS code can be found in the link : Link
Add a Line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+C
Remove a line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+U
More shortcut Ctrl+/
CTRL + SHIFT + A for CSS multiline
Ubuntu 16
VSCode Version 1.17.2
If you are using VSCode in a linux environment, then you can comment multiple lines by either:
Selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + Shift + A (Block commenting)
Or, selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + / (Single-line commenting applied to all selected lines)
Hope this helps.
In the new version of VSCODE ( version 1.26.1)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/cc40X.png
Go to File > preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts Search for comment Double click the existing shortcut 'keybinding` And press the new keyboard shortcut in my case ctrl + shfit + /
You can assign any shortcuts you want. Hope it helps.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ZDQ0.png
You can find the shortcut in the Edit menu :
Edit > Toggle Block Comment => Shift-Alt-A
visual studio 2017 we do a: Comment Selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C
press Ctrl+K to get shortcut. press Ctrl+C to confirm http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/2017/
Ctrl
+ k
, Ctrl
+ U
For multiline commenting in Python VSCode, all you have to do it just:
Ctrl + /
On Windows 10 you can use CTRL + } to comment/uncomment on any line or block of code.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZOvG2.gif
For doing on mac: CMD + Shift + 7
For me it was ctrl + ' (I am using a swedish layout for the keyboard). Hope that helps anyone.
In windows you need to press ctrl + / in mac you can do ⌘ + / to make multiple comment
// public function index()
// {
// $badgeIcon = BadgeIcon::all();
// return $this->showAll($badgeIcon);
// }
Then if you want to un-comment then select the lines again and then press ctrl + /(in windows) again ⌘ + /(in mac).
https://i.stack.imgur.com/JLTtJ.png
Select lines which you want to Comment
Then press Ctrl + / to make selected lines comment
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ty9wK.png
And to uncomment: Select the commented lines you which want to uncomment First press Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Uto make commented lines uncomment
1.Select the text, Press Cntl + K, C to comment (Ctr+E+C ) 2.Move the cursor to the first line after the delimiter // and before the Code text. 3.Press Alt + Shift and use arrow keys to make selection. ... 4.Once the selection is done, press space bar to enter a single space.
Multi-Line Comment in VS Code
To comment the code select the lines and hit: Alt + Shift + A
To Uncomment select the commented code and hit: Alt + Shift + A
https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRX2a.png
For windows, the default key for multi-line comment is Alt + Shift + A
For windows, the default key for single line comment is Ctrl + /
CTRL + SHIFT + A For Red Hat,centos
Select item
then CTRL+SHIFT+A
CTRL + / comment / uncomment multiple lines of code
Ctrl+k+u for upper case latter
ctrl+k+l for lower case latter
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