Extension Details

Remove Comments allows you to quickly remove comments from your code!

It works on the current line or all selected lines, and automatically detects the comment format based on your document's language.

Usage

To run Remove Comments:

• Select the Editor → Remove Comments
• Open the command palette and type Remove Comments

You might also choose to set a keyboard shortcut using Nova → Settings... → Key Bindings, such as:

• Ctrl+Cmd+/ to invoke Remove Comments

How It Works

1. No Selection: If you don't have any text selected, the extension will remove comments from the current line where your cursor is positioned.

2. With Selection: If you have selected multiple lines, the extension will remove comments from all selected lines.

3. Smart Detection: The extension automatically detects your document's language and uses the appropriate comment syntax:

4. Line comments like //, #, --, %

5. Block comments like /* */, <!-- -->, --[[ ]]

6. String-Aware: Comment markers inside strings are preserved and won't be removed.

Examples

JavaScript (C-style comments):

// This comment will be removed
const x = 10; // This trailing comment will be removed
/* This block comment will be removed */

After running Remove Comments:

const x = 10;

Python (hash-style comments):

# This comment will be removed
value = 42  # This trailing comment will be removed

After running Remove Comments:

value = 42

HTML:

<!-- This comment will be removed -->
<div>Content</div> <!-- This trailing comment will be removed -->

After running Remove Comments:

<div>Content</div>

Supported Languages

The extension supports 30+ programming languages including:

• C-style (// and /* */): JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C, C++, C#, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Rust, PHP, Dart, Objective-C
• Hash-style (#): Python, Ruby, Shell, Bash, Perl, YAML, TOML, CoffeeScript, R
• HTML-style (<!-- -->): HTML, XML, Markdown
• CSS-style (/* */): CSS, SCSS, Less
• Lua (-- and --[[ ]])
• SQL (-- and /* */)
• Haskell (-- and {- -})
• LaTeX (%)
• MATLAB (% and %{ %})

If your language isn't automatically detected, the extension defaults to C-style comments.

Version 1.0.0

Initial release