[SOLVED] comment lines in .vimrc

bkelly · 04-15-2018, 08:47 PM

On the Centos system at work and Debian at home, when the # character is used as a comment and vi is started it whines with:

Code:

Error detected while processing /home/bkelly/.vimrc:
line   3:
E488: Trailing characters: # set noncompatible
Press ENTER or type command to continue

What must be done to get vim to recognize a comment line and to ignore it.

Edit, just in case that .vimrc contains:

Code:

set term=ansi
# set noncompatible

The first line is blank, the third line is the one that vi is, apparently, complaining about. I just noted that the option for CODE detects and omits leading blank lines and puts one or two blank lines at the end of the section.

scasey · 04-16-2018, 12:13 AM

A search for "comments in vimrc" gave me this:

Code:

How to comment in Vim's config files .vimrc
A double quote to the left of the text you want to comment.
Example: " this is how a comment looks like in ~/.vimrc

as the first of about 12 entries before the link to this thread.

So, a sh (#) is not the comment character for the .vimrc file...double quote is.

Michael Uplawski · 04-16-2018, 06:09 AM

One of the best documentations of the vimrc syntax is the system-wide, default vimrc-file, or some of the others which appear to accumulate in arbitrary places, after some years of using vim.

Here, I have for example “/etc/vimrc”
Another one is “/usr/share/vim/vim80/vimrc_example.vim”, with “80” replaced by any vim-version available on your system.

andreyssop · 05-25-2018, 01:13 AM

Hi,

How do you comment code in HTMLPad? Ctrl-/ des not work.

Thanks

scasey · 05-29-2018, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andreyssop

Hi,

How do you comment code in HTMLPad? Ctrl-/ des not work.

Thanks

Going forward, you should start your own thread rather than add a non-related question to an existing thread.

That said, HTMLPad is just an editor.
To comment html use

Code:

<!-- comment -->

The included comment can span multiple lines.

Search for "xxx comments" where xxx is the language you want to find out how to comment.