[CAUSE I'D RATHER HAVE 500 LINES INSTEAD OF 5000]
Toggle comment visibility in any file. Comments collapse out of view, it was bugging me.
how to use it
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Toggle comments | Ctrl+Alt+/ (when editor is focused). You can change this obviously. |
| Toggle via mouse | You can click the little eye in the status bar, because god knows I've forgotten that I had my comments disabled. |
| Toggle via palette | Ctrl+Shift+P → NoComment: Toggle Comments |
The status bar item reflects the state of whichever file is active so if you switch tabs, it updates.
Languages supported
JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Python, Rust, C, C++, Java, Go, C#, Swift, Kotlin, HTML, XML, CSS, SCSS, Less, Lua, Haskell, SQL, Shell, Fish, YAML, TOML, Dockerfile, Ruby, R, Markdown, and anything else falls back to // and /* */.
If your language is not supported then fork it and add it, I know maybe 5 of these languages, I tried getting in all types of propietary comment syntax that I could find.
Changing the keybinding
Open the Keyboard Shortcuts editor (Ctrl+K Ctrl+S), search for nocomment.toggle, and reassign it. The default only fires when a text editor is focused WHICH IS intentional, otherwise the shortcut would compete with other panels.
Known limitations
- Detection is syntax-aware but not really semantic it uses a state machine that tracks strings and comments, so it handles most real-world code correctly. Edge cases like Python triple-quoted strings used as docstrings may not be detected all the time (wth is wrong with you??)
- Comments hidden this way are invisible, not deleted. THIS IS A NON DESTRUCTIVE EXTENSION
- Also, bear this in mind: if you want it to act as well, when the editor is not focused (meaning global), you wont be able to do it 100% perfectly, since most of the time you are gonna be inside a webview container, making this an issue with vscode primarily.
License
Public domain. Do whatever you want with it, idfc, I had an hour to spare and all the comments AI add to code is just annoying most of the time, I mainly use this extension for refactoring or for when I actually don't know wtf is the code doing.