Is this still needed with Neovim 0.10?

[flexagoon]

Neovim 0.10 introduced built-in commenting support:

neovim/neovim#28176

Does it make this plugin redundant? If not, the differences should be mentioned in the readme.

[ouuan]

A notable difference is that the built-in comment does not force the single-space inner padding. This means that comments would be //comment instead of // comment, and uncommenting // comment may result in comment with a leading space. This might be fixed in the future. Now you can use this workaround.

[LukasPietzschmann]

Additionally, NeoVim cannot distinguish between block and line comments. In C, e.g., it will always insert block comments.

[madjxatw]

As I know the built-in commenting support in Neovim 0.10 actually comes from mini.comment that lacks block commenting support and some other features.

[emileferreira]

The limitation voiced by @ouuan does apply to C and Java, but not to Lua or Python. I think that, for now, this plugin provides a more consistent and featureful commenting interface, and agree that a comparison should be provided in the README.

[aimestereo]

UPDATE: I can't say anything about C, but default behavior miss space for *.ts and completely missing/broken for *.sql

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@flexagoon If you don't need block comments, then you are good with the default Neovim behavior, at least try it and decide for yourself.

@ouuan

notable difference is that the built-in comment does not force the single-space inner padding. This means that comments would be //comment instead of // comment, and uncommenting // comment may result in comment with a leading space. This might be fixed in the future.

I don't see that, standard gc works correctly in .lua, .py, .go, .ts (with leading space). Text objects are also supported (.i.e. gci{ or gc}).
There' no block comments, but I don't use them anyway.

❯ nvim --version
NVIM v0.10.0
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1713773202

[ouuan]

I don't see that, standard gc works correctly in .lua, .py, .go, .ts (with leading space).

What's your commentstring for ts? If it is // %s, where is it set (nvim -V1 and :verb set cms)?

[polyzen]

JoosepAlviste/nvim-ts-context-commentstring#109

[aimestereo]

@ouuan interesting for *.ts files it's commentstring=//%s and yeah, it's wrong now. Maybe I fucked up in my initial check

I came back to this, to update my original comment: default comment doesn't work for sql, like at all.

[VladimirMarkelov]

Can NeoVim 0.10 comment/uncomment a part of a line using the block comment?

With this plugin I press gc and if anything is selected inside a line, the plugin uses block comment to comment a part of the text. But in NeoVim pressing gc always comment/uncomment the entire line even if it is in Visual mode and a part of a line is selected. From this point of view, the plugin seems much more convenient for me than the built-in NeoVim feature.

[aimestereo]

@VladimirMarkelov no, it can't. It can only comment whole line.