Mastering Vim

The basics

Let's start simple: let's get our plugin to add a key binding that comments out the current line by prefixing it with a Python-style comment (#).

Let's start in ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-commenter/plugin/commenter.vim:

" Comment out the current line in Python.function! commenter#Comment()  let l:line = getline('.')  call setline('.', '# ' . l:line)endfunctionnnoremap gc :call commenter#Comment()<cr>

In the previous example, we've created a function that inserts # in front of the current line (.) and maps it to gc. As you might remember, g, while having some mappings assigned to it (see :help g), is effectively a free namespace for the user to fill, and c stands for "comment".

Another popular prefix for custom mappings is the ...