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I find myself often selecting text and then wanting to go to the start of that selection rather than the end. For example in the following:

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If I press esc, it will take me to the end of the selection, but often I find myself wanting to go to the beginning of a visual selection. Is there an easy way to do this?

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    Just o...and this must be a duplicate.
    – B Layer
    Apr 24 '20 at 23:55
  • @BLayer how would o work? Doesn't that create a new line below the current one? Oh -- I mean after the text is un-selected, does the visual mode create a marker or something?
    – David542
    Apr 25 '20 at 0:11
  • Yeah, sorry, I went to see if I could find an existing answer...otherwise I would add one here. But I got pulled away for a bit. Seems some eager beaver took care of half those steps.
    – B Layer
    Apr 25 '20 at 2:05
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You can use the o visual-mode command to jump to the "other" end of the visual selection.

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For normal mode see: quasi duplicate

You can unify all those mappings. E.g. if gv stands for select last visual selection, then append suffix 0 to go to start, or $ to end:

nnoremap gv0 `<
nnoremap gv$ `>
vnoremap gv0 o
vnoremap gv$ o

Basic visual block tips: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/selecting-columns-with-visual-block-mode/

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