ctrl-v is not a comment toggle in vim

[mkomitee]

ctrl-v in vim activates visual block mode. visual block mode can be used to
insert a comment character, but is not itself a comment toggle.

[ghost]

The statement isn't completely incorrect, but is slightly misleading and could be improved. See this Stack Overflow question, this answer in particular:

For those tasks I use most of the time block selection.

Put your cursor on the first # character, press Ctrl-q, and go down until the last commented line and press x, that will delete all the # characters vertically.

For commenting a block of text is almost the same, go to the first line you want to comment, press Ctrlq, then select until the last line, and press I#Esc, that will insert a # character on all selected lines.

[sigmavirus24]

@Kuyan but it doesn't toggle commenting a line. You can't move to a line press ^-v and have the line auto-commented. It is a visual block trigger though through which one of the things you can do is insert characters, which in python and ruby's case could be an octothorpe.

[mkomitee]

The statement is incorrect. ctrl-v is not a "comment/uncomment" toggle in vim. Regardless, this is a python guide, and there's really no need to include this even if it were accurate.

[sigmavirus24]

@mkomitee in case my comment wasn't explicit enough, I'm +1 for this PR

[ghost]

@mkomitee @sigmavirus24 You're right - in that case, this pull request has my 👍.

[mkomitee]

Excellent.

Off-topic: @sigmavirus24, do you ever have to sleep like the rest of us?

[sigmavirus24]

@mkomitee what is this sleep you speak of?

[orientalperil]

This thread was a fun read. Thumbs up.