Commenting out code blocks in Atom

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I have been moving from Webstorm and RubyMine to Atom and I really miss a feature from the Jetbrains editors where you select a code block and press CMD   - and it adds language specific comment character s  to the beginning of each line     for ruby     for js     for css etc     Is there a built in shortcut for Atom or a package which provides this feature

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Edit your keymap cson file and add  Windows     platform-win32  editor      ctrl-     editor toggle-line-comments    Mac     platform-darwin  editor      cmd-     editor toggle-line-comments    Now just highlight the text you want to comment and hit the keybinding

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Possible reason  watch out for overlapping keybindings  It has happened in my case and deactivated the initial toggle line comment binding   The Keybindings you can find in the Edit - gt  Preferences - gt  Keybindings of the application navbar  The solution was overriding binding for github toggle-patch-selection-mode

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According to this  cmd     should do it   And for Windows and Linux  it is ctrl

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You can use Ctrl      This works for me

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first select your block of code then press cmd     for MacOS

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Atom does not have a specific comment-block function  but if you select more rows and then use the normal ctrl-   Windows or Linux  cmd-   Mac   it will comment all the lines

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Multi-line comment can be made by selecting the lines and by pressing Ctrl      and Now you can have many plugins for comments   1  comment - https   atom io packages comment  2  block-comment-lines - https   atom io packages block-comment-lines  better one is block-comment try that

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with all my respect with the comments above  no need to use a package    1  click on Atom  1 2  then ATL   gt  the menu bar appear  1 3  File  gt  Settings    gt  settings appear 1 4  Keybindings  gt  Search keybinding input   gt  fill  comment  1 5  you will see       if you want to change the configuration  you just have to parameter your keymap file

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Also  there are packages    Comment package for atom  https   atom io packages comment  Block-comment-lines https   atom io packages block-comment-lines Sublime Block Comments

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Pressing  Cmd      will create a single line comment  i e     Single line comment  Type      and press the Tab key  to create a block comment ala         Comment block

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Atom does not have block comment by default  so I would recommend searching for atom packages by  block comment  and install the one suits to you   I prefer https   atom io packages block-comment because is has the closest keyboard shortcut to line comment and it works as i need it to  meaning it would not comment the whole line but only the selected text     line comment  CTRL    block comment  CTRL SHIFT    with the plugin installed

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You can use Ctrl   Shift     for Windows

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CTRL   on windows  no need to select whole line  Just use key combination on line which you want to comment out

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Command     or Ctrl   shift   7 doesn t work for me  debian   colombian keyboard    In my case I changed the Atom keymap cson file adding the following     editor      ctrl-7    editor toggle-line-comments    and now it works

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On an belgium keyboard asserted on the mac command   shift     is the keystroke for commenting out a block

[atom-editor] Commenting out code blocks in Atom

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