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Can I disable continuation of comments to the next line in Vim?

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Mar 15, 202670154 views
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Problem

In Vim, if I'm typing a comment in a code file, and I hit Enter, it automatically makes the newline a comment, too. For instance, in a Ruby file: Generally, this is what I want, but not always. How can I temporarily turn off this auto-commenting behavior?

Error Output

# I manually typed the pound at the start of this line and hit enter.
# This line formatted itself this way automatically.

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