What key shortcuts are to comment and uncomment code?

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Dmytro picture Dmytro · Aug 22, 2012 · Viewed 200k times · Source

There were Ctrl+E+C (comment) and Ctrl+E+U (uncomment) in older versions, or Ctrl+K+C and Ctrl+K+U.

But in VS 2012, I can't see key shortcuts:

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How to enable those shortcuts?

Answer

James McNellis picture James McNellis · Aug 22, 2012

Keyboard accelerators are configurable. You can find out which keyboard accelerators are bound to a command in Tools -> Options on the Environment -> Keyboard page.

These commands are named Edit.CommentSelection and Edit.UncommentSelection.

(With my settings, these are bound to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U. I would guess that these are the defaults, at least in the C++ defaults, but I don't know for sure. The best way to find out is to check your settings.)

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