How to comment out stuff in Markdown on GitHub?

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Comments in GitHub flavour of Markdown

As answers to this Stack Overflow question reveal, using <!--- and ---> or <!-- and --> works (view source by clicking "Raw"):

Inline comments

How about commenting out <!--- just ---> a part of one line?

If you know of a way, please show me how by cloning this Gist, or commenting below!

Update 2019

As several commenters pointed out, for inline commenting <!-- a normal html comment --> now works.

You can't see this:

Btw, wow, I created this gist in 2014 and only now became aware of the discussion and that it's the top Google hit for markdown comments github. 👍

Thank you so much @jonikarppinen 🤗 !! Here's hoping Github (along w/ Slack & Zenhub, plz) make their markdown more standard/vanilla/usable so we can all be productive at work.

<!--cc/ @jonikarppinen, in case your two Github handles are not the same. :upside_down_face: -->

Works simple

Need help - dotnet/docfx#9285

Is there a keyboard shortcut to do it?

I just used this trick in a comment where I thought some details I've wrote might be unnecessary but at the same time I didn't want lose those details, and, I might actually need those in a follow up comment. So I commented them out, now I have access to those by pressing Edit mwahahaha :))

Let's see...

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