Remove multi line comments in vim

Question

I want to remove a multi line comment in vim:

/**
 * Factory for creating [MainViewModel]
 *
 * @param arg the repository to pass to [MainViewModel]
 */

I tried

%s,/\*.*\*/,,gc

but it doesn't work for multiple lines and

s,/\*\_.*\*/,,gc

removes whole content between First comment's beginning and last comment's ending.

aksh1618 · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-20 11:37:57Z

3

This works:

%s,/\*\_.{-}\*/,,g

\_ includes newlines in the following character set.

{-} instead of * tells vim to be non-greedy in matching.

answered Jan 20, 2019 at 11:37

aksh1618

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