In Vim, what is the best way to select, delete, or comment out large portions of multi-screen text?

Question

Selecting a large amount of text that extends over many screens in an IDE like Eclipse is fairly easy since you can use the mouse, but what is the best way to e.g. select and de

Answer 1

For commenting out lines, I would suggest one of these plugins:

EnhancedCommentify

NERD Commenter

I find myself using NERD more these days, but I've used EnhancedCommentify for years.