[visual-studio-code] How to comment multiple lines in Visual Studio Code?

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?

In my case, Ubuntu, the shortcut is ctrl+shift+A.

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.

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.

1. Select all line you want comments

2. CTRL + /

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.

Keyboard shortcuts for VSCode on MacOS: https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-macos.pdf

I use ?/ to toggle commenting.

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

On Windows 10 you can use CTRL + } to comment/uncomment on any line or block of code.

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.

For my keyboard layout it's Ctrl + § for:

//
//
//

And Shift + Alt + A for:

/*
...
*/

CTRL + SHIFT + A for CSS multiline

• Ubuntu 16
• VSCode Version 1.17.2

In MacOS comment out multi-lines in Visual Studio Code by keyboard shortcut:

Option + Shift + A

/*
...
...
*/

The keyboard shortcut to comment multiple in Windows is shift+alt+A.

To comment multiple line on visual code use

shift+alt+a

To comment single line use

ctrl + /

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

To change the setting on VS2019:

Tools->Options

Search for Keyboard

Under Show Commands Containing search for ToggleLineComment

See what it is set to or change to whatever you like.

VERY IMPORTANT: sometimes it is required to select TextEditor and not Global. this killed me for hours.

As of now (version 1.18.0), you can check keyboard shortcuts by going to File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Here you can search for comment related shortcuts.

For users who are coming from Sublime Text or likes to have Ctrl+Shift+/, you can make the change from the above mentioned setting or simply install the Sublime Text Keymap extension by Microsoft.

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+/

For me to comment I use:

Ctrl + k, Ctrl + c

and to uncomment:

Ctrl + k, Ctrl + u

I am using ubuntu 18.0.4

This is somewhat of an extension to the answer when the comment line is too long to fit on a line (above 80 chars or whatever). If the comment is too long and text needs to wrap, it's better to keep it under control (rather than use the editor's text wrap feature). This plugin Rewrap helps do just that https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stkb.rewrap&ssr=false#review-details

Install the plugin in VS Code, select the text comment, comment it using one of the right methods described in the answers (Ctrl + / is easiest) and then once it's commented, press Alt + Q and this will split the text to multiple lines and also comment it. Found it pretty useful. Hope this helps someone :)

CTRL + / comment / uncomment multiple lines of code

Ctrl+k+u for upper case latter

ctrl+k+l for lower case latter

In the new version of VSCODE ( version 1.26.1)

1. Go to File > preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
2. Search for comment Double click the existing shortcut 'keybinding`
3. And press the new keyboard shortcut in my case ctrl + shfit + /

You can assign any shortcuts you want. Hope it helps.

In Windows

Select the lines you want to comment. Then press Ctrl + /

You can find the shortcut in the Edit menu :

Edit > Toggle Block Comment => Shift-Alt-A

Select lines which you want to Comment

Then press Ctrl + / to make selected lines comment

And to uncomment:
Select the commented lines you which want to uncomment
First press Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Uto make commented lines uncomment

For windows, the default key for multi-line comment is Alt + Shift + A

For windows, the default key for single line comment is Ctrl + /

You can view the existing shortcuts using the same steps as below. I find the default ones to be inconvenient, so I used the following process to change the IDE to use the '/' command seen in the comments.

You can customize the keyboard shortcuts by going int the "Tools" menu and selecting "Options". Then select "Keyboard" from the "Environment" branch. From there you can bind the Edit.CommentSelection and Edit.UncommentSelection commands to whichever keyboard shortcuts you'd like.

on Windows 10, Italian Keyboard, VSC 1.19.1:

Select lines that you want comment and press "Ctrl + ù"

CTRL + SHIFT + A For Red Hat,centos

• Select item
• then CTRL+SHIFT+A

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).

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

For doing on mac: CMD + Shift + 7

For multiline commenting in Python VSCode, all you have to do it just:

Ctrl + /

For me it was ctrl + ' (I am using a swedish layout for the keyboard). Hope that helps anyone.

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/