YAML editor toggle commenting of lines

[nagyrobi]

Describe the enhancement

One thing I really miss from other tools like Notepad++ is to be able to toggle commenting on/off for blocks of yaml code. Like select the portion of text and automatically insert/remove the comment chars at the beginning of the selected lines. Either by right-click or a button in the window top bar.

Use cases

One may need for example a block of external_components temporarily (eg until a PR is being merged). Would be nice to be able to temporarily comment it out instead of deleting it, when checking how the build works without it.

But for any part of the code it would be useful. Even for lambdas, especially in multi-line lambdas it would be nice to be able to temporarily comment out some lines. Best would be aware that yaml lines need to be commented with #, while lambda lines need to be commented with //.

Visual examples

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Anything else?

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[pat1300]

If you are running under home assistant, you can use the genuine File Editor of HA to edit the yaml files of Esphome. This editor contains your requested feature.

[nagyrobi]

Not running under Home Assistant, no.

[jesserockz]

Did you try to highlight the block of YAML and press ctrl + /?