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Allow commenting out/uncommenting multiple cells all at once #142437
Description
Pain point
In Jupyter notebook experience the users often need to turn different cells on or off (e.g. import, read/write files, different versions of the same function in debugging, etc). Currently you can manually skip cells or commenting out/uncommenting lines in a cell on a cell by cell basis, but it becomes inefficient when you need to do this for multiple cells. Alternatively you can temporarily change those cells to Markdown, but this is a messy workaround (especially when a code cell begins with #).
Desired experience
- Select multiple cells
- Press Ctrl + / to comment out all lines in selected code cells (add # to the beginning of each line. No action for Markdown cells if also selected)
- Press Ctrl + / again to uncomment (remove # in the beginning of each line in selected code cells. If no # then do nothing to that line)
Thank you for considering this feature request.
Activity
IanMatthewHuff commentedon Feb 3, 2022
Frank Wang (@frank-yifei-wang) Thanks for the suggestion. I know that we have another suggestion or two about selections and editor operations spanning multiple cells, so we might be able to consider this at the same time.
vscode-triage-bot commentedon Feb 7, 2022
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magrella commentedon Jan 11, 2023
What's the status of this please?
I just switched from Jupyter Notebook to VSC, I have many commented cells on a older notebook ands it is very time consuming having to uncomment each line manually without this feature:
"Press Ctrl + / again to uncomment (remove # in the beginning of each line in selected code cells. If no # then do nothing to that line)"
andrefilipefmsilva commentedon Jun 2, 2024
This would be a great feature. Struggling because of the lack of it right now.