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Yeah but... Don't. Multiline comments are a bit of an anti-pattern at the best of times. This is a war crime.
I use this only when developing, mostly while debugging. IIRC I've never commited code like this.
Close notepad.exe. Open a real editor. Select the text you want to comment out. Press Ctrl-/
No notepad.exe, nvi:
'a,s/^/# /.