vim-commentary vs commented.nvim

vim-commentary

commentary.vim: comment stuff out (by tpope)

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commented.nvim

Neovim commenting plugin in Lua. Support operator, motions and more than 60 languages! :fire: (by winston0410)

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vim-commentary		commented.nvim
	Project
51	Mentions	5
5,687	Stars	112
-	Growth	-
2.5	Activity	0.0
16 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Vim Script	Language	Lua
-	License	MIT License

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vim-commentary

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-commentary. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.

html css commenting things out
2 projects | /r/vim | 1 Jun 2023
A very simple way to comment/uncomment lines and visual selections.
1 project | /r/vim | 28 Mar 2023

Also, tpope/vim-commentary
Plugin for comments
2 projects | /r/neovim | 12 Mar 2023

https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary does what you expect!
My Solution to Block Comments
2 projects | /r/vim | 11 Mar 2023

I've replaced most of my custom maps for commenting with tpope's commentary plugin. It's a great plugin. However, I wasn't happy with the lack of multi-line/block comment abilities so I created some maps to compliment the commentary plugin. Here are some maps that can be used with autocmd, FileType and for JavaScript comments.
Vim plugin for wrapping/unwrapping line comments
2 projects | /r/vim | 2 Mar 2023

commentary.vim + :h gq?
Favorite vimrc configs for coding?
8 projects | /r/vim | 20 Feb 2023

Having said this, there are some useful language independent extensions: jiangmiao/auto-pairs, tpope/vim-commentary, preservim/tagbar, junegunn/vim-peekaboo
Neovim config from scratch (Part II)
10 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023

vim-commentary comment code comfortably with motions and visual selections alike.
Anybody have a keymap/config for folding and unfolding a block of code? Also how to comment lines of selected code?
2 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jan 2023

With a plugin like vim-commentary or comment.nvim
Colored statusline doesn't load at start; I need to manually source $MYVIMRC
4 projects | /r/vim | 2 Jan 2023

" This file contains common and basic plugins too essential not to include " See https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial " Auto install vim-plug (if not already installed) if empty(glob('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall endif " Run PlugInstall if there are missing plugins autocmd VimEnter * if len(filter(values(g:plugs), '!isdirectory(v:val.dir)')) \| PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC \| endif " enable Vim-Plug: call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged') " Install/update plugins Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' " Better C/C++ syntax highlighting; Plug 'https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight' call plug#end() "---------- Basic configs ---------------------------------------------------- autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox " Enable transparent background let g:gruvbox_transparent_bg = 1
Neovim config from scratch (Part I)
9 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2022

Commentary Tim pope's comment plugin

commented.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of commented.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-12.

First Release of Nickel
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 12 Mar 2022
Comment.nvim: Simple and powerful comment plugin for neovim. Supports commentstring, dot repeat, left-right/up-down motions, hooks, and more
8 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Oct 2021
[Guide] Tips and tricks to reduce startup and Improve your lua config
6 projects | /r/neovim | 22 Jul 2021
Update on my commenting plugin and contribution wanted :)
2 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Jun 2021

I have been working on a commenting plugin, and now it is able to do the followings:
commented.nvim, a commenting plugin that actually works with count.
4 projects | /r/neovim | 30 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-commentary and commented.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

nerdcommenter - Vim plugin for intensely nerdy commenting powers

Comment.nvim - :brain: :muscle: // Smart and powerful comment plugin for neovim. Supports treesitter, dot repeat, left-right/up-down motions, hooks, and more

nvim-comment - A comment toggler for Neovim, written in Lua

tcomment_vim - An extensible & universal comment vim-plugin that also handles embedded filetypes

kommentary - Neovim commenting plugin, written in lua.

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

nix-darwin-dotfiles - Dotfiles managed via Nix-Darwin and Mk-Darwin-System, for schoolwork and kotlin, lua, and rust programming

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

nvim-ts-context-commentstring - Neovim treesitter plugin for setting the commentstring based on the cursor location in a file.