Better Comment

Simply chooses to toggle a line comment or a block comment depending on where the start of the selection is. If the selection does not begin at the start of a line then a block comment is toggled, otherwise a line comment is toggled. If there is no current selection, it will try to detect a block comment under the cursor and toggle it, otherwise it will toggle a line comment.

By default, it overrides the standard line comment toggle key definition, Ctrl+/ or Cmd+/, which is assigned to bettercomment.toggle.

Lastly, if a multi-line selection is commented in a file which doesn't support line comments (see configuration), the selection will be commented with a block comment on each line. Override the configuration to an empty array to disable this behaviour.

Note: Currently the extension assumes that block comments are C style, e.g. /* comment */. This will be extended in s future release to handle other languages.

Installing

You can install the latest version of the extension via the Visual Studio Marketplace here.

Alternatively, open Visual Studio code, press Ctrl+P or Cmd+P and type:

> ext install bettercomment

Source Code

The source code is available on GitHub here.

Configuration

betterComment.forcedLineComment

Use this to set which files (using globs) should use block comments on each line of a multi-line selection. See issue #35464. Default is HTML, XML, CSS and Markdown files.