🪄 Remove Comments Pro

Remove all comments from your code instantly right from the editor context menu or Command Palette.

Remove Comments Pro strips single-line, multi-line, and block comments from 60+ programming languages while keeping your strings, logic, and file structure completely intact. Features a live diff preview before removing anything. Perfect for cleaning up code before sharing, shipping, or reviewing.

🪄 Features

🚀 Usage

Via Editor Title Button

Click the 🪄 Remove Comments Pro button in the editor title bar (top-right area) to access all commands without opening the context menu.

Via Right-Click Menu

Right-click anywhere in the editor → Remove Comments Pro 🪄 → choose an action.

Via Command Palette

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and type Comments.

Available Commands

💡 Tip: Select text before running any command to process only the selected region.

👁️ Preview Mode

By default, Remove Comments Pro shows a diff preview before making any changes. Run any removal command and VS Code opens its native diff editor — left side is your original file, right side is the result after removal. Lines that would be deleted appear highlighted in red. A prompt lets you Apply or Cancel.

To skip the confirmation step and apply changes immediately, set:

"remove-comments.previewBeforeApply": false

You can also run any Preview: command explicitly to open the diff without triggering removal.

⚙️ Settings

Configure Remove Comments Pro in VS Code settings (Ctrl+,), search for remove-comments:

remove-comments.previewBeforeApply

• Type: boolean · Default: true
• Show a diff preview and ask for confirmation before applying any comment removal. Set to false to apply immediately.

remove-comments.enableC99

• Type: boolean · Default: false
• Enable // comments in C files (C99 and later standard).

remove-comments.trimBlankLines.above

• Type: integer · Default: 0
• After removing a comment, also delete up to N blank lines above it.

remove-comments.trimBlankLines.below

• Type: integer · Default: 0
• After removing a comment, also delete up to N blank lines below it.

remove-comments.treatJsdocAsComment

• Type: boolean · Default: false
• Treat /** */ JSDoc blocks as comments and remove them. When false (default), JSDoc blocks are preserved as documentation.

remove-comments.bypassRetainRules

• Type: boolean · Default: false
• Ignore all retain rules and remove every comment, including ones protected by regex patterns. When false (default), retain rules are respected.

remove-comments.stringCapture.outputPath

• Type: string
• Absolute path to the file where captured strings will be appended.
  ⚠️ The file must be open in a tab before running Extract Strings to a file.

remove-comments.stringCapture.lineGlue

• Type: string · Default: "@@@@"
• Replacement for newlines inside multi-line strings when capturing.

remove-comments.retain

• Type: object | false
• Define named regex rules for comments that should not be removed.
  Use the language ID (e.g. "javascript", "python") or "all" as the key.

Example — keep any comment containing @license or @preserve:

"remove-comments.retain": {
  "all": {
    "license": { "regex": "@license|@preserve", "flags": "i" }
  }
}

Example — keep TODO comments only in Python:

"remove-comments.retain": {
  "python": {
    "todos": { "regex": "TODO", "flags": "i" }
  }
}

Set to false to disable all retain rules globally:

"remove-comments.retain": false

🌐 Supported Languages

Remove Comments Pro supports 60+ languages out of the box:

🔬 Advanced: Multi-Language Files

Remove Comments Pro automatically splits multi-language files into zones and applies the correct comment rules for each section:

• HTML / Svelte → HTML body + <style> (CSS) + <script> (JavaScript)
• Vue → <template>, <script>, <style> — each with their own language (respects lang="ts", lang="scss", etc.)
• PHP → only processes code inside <?php ... ?> blocks

📋 Examples

Before:

// Initialize the application
const app = express(); /* legacy framework */

/**
 * @param {string} name
 */
function greet(name) {
  // TODO: add i18n support
  return `Hello, ${name}!`; // greeting
}

After Remove All Comments (Current File):

const app = express();

function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}

After Remove All Single Line Comments (Current File):

const app = express(); /* legacy framework */

/**
 * @param {string} name
 */
function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}

📝 License

MIT © Remove Comments Pro Contributors