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Faster way to move a block of text
Here's how I usually copy a block of text or code:
Select the block with Visual mode (V) and delete it with
d; or if it's just a single line, just use
dd.
Go to where I want the text to be, I am too ...
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How do I visually select the block of text I just pasted in Vim?
I usually need to move/copy code snippets between my source files. After I paste a block of text, I usually need to apply some operation to that block such as reindenting them with =.
Is there a way ...
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Clipboard is reset after first paste in Visual mode
When I make a selection in Visual mode and copy, then select a text and then paste, this paste only works once. For the next time, I again have to go to the original source and then do the copy ...
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How to simply remove braces
One of my friend told me that I can use the trick below to remove a pair of curly brackets.
Put the cursor inside the curly bracket pair you want to remove.
y i { to yank the text in braces , then v ...
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Why can't I paste commands into vi?
I've been using vi for 40 years. A week ago I upgraded; Disaster struck!
The upgrade was to
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Mar 4 2018 23:38:28)
I run this on xterm under Cygwin (...
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Yank/select until delimiter in different lines
From the following text:
variable1 = 'example'
foo = 'foo'
barett = 'ver'
I would like to yank (or visually select, if possible) the content of each line until the = sign:
variable1
foo
barett
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Insert a text selected via visual block
I'm facing a behavior that I find unatural when trying to paste a block of text selected with visual block mode (<C-v>): I can't insert it between two lines without messing with the already ...
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How to paste a line in a vertical selection block?
Consider the following text:
long foobar=(test);
int barbar=(something);
char foofoo=();
Suppose I have yanked some chunk of code which I want to place before each opening parenthesis, e.g. ...
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Get 2 lines yanked or 1 line yanked confirmation
This is a small thing, but it still annoys me. When I select at least 3 lines with Visual line mode, and then yank them, I get a confirmation: n lines yanked appears at the bottom of my screen. ...
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How to copy text to X primary selection only when visual mode is started with the mouse?
At the moment, if I use Visual mode, whenever I select a block of text using the keyboard it ends up on my X primary selection (ie the clipboard that is filled using the mouse). Even if I just select ...
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Way to get content of Visual Selection?
Now if I select something in visual mode, is there some way to get the selected area without having to yank it to some register?
I looked through :h functions but didn't find anything.
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Why does `yW` yank until the end of the WORD, but `W` move to the next one?
My confusion started with realizing, that yW yanks a different region, then what vW selects, but I found this that explains about selection. But then I realized, that while yW will yank until the end ...
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Pasting from vim to an ipython terminal
I have an open ipython terminal open, and I'd like to paste the visual selection to it, with prepending "%cpaste" and appending "--"
This is what I came up with
function! ...
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The meaning of "= in Vim
I was solving a problem on Vimgolf (you can take a look at this) where I stumbled upon this solution.
djgJ.V"=[<C-R><C-A>]<CR>pZZ
Could you please walk me through the meaning of ...
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Why is this appearing to select wrong number of lines?
First, I typed 2V to select two lines, and y to yank them. Then I typed 3V, and instead of selecting 3 lines, Vim selects 6 lines. Next I typed 4V and Vim selected 8 lines. It seems that 3 or 4 in the ...
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Vim: Replace visual selection without overwriting the unnamed register
How do I replace a visual selection with some register content without overwriting the unnamed ("") register by the visual selection?
The question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837772/vim-...
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Duplicate selected lines programmatically
I'm creating a Vim script and a critical part of it is duplicating the selected lines. To duplicate lines, I have this mapping which works as intended:
vnoremap <Leader>d :copy '><CR>
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Is there a quicker way to replace the content in parentheses with the content yanked?
If I want to replace something inside a group of parentheses (like say a function call) with something I've yanked I currently do: vi(p this obviously isn't an excessive use of the keyboard, however I'...
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Stop Vim from yanking visual selected text
Let's say I have a file like this
(abc)
(123)
(456)
I want to yank abc and paste it in place of 123 and 456.
I would yi) on the first line. Then go down a line and paste it with vi)p.
But for the 456,...
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Is there a text object or motion for non-comment lines are not separated from comment lines by blank lines? E.g., in git commit messages
Consider the text
A
B
# C
# D
Is there a text object or motion that will select lines A and B if the cursor is on either, but not select lines C and D? ap or ip with the cursor on any of those four ...
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How do you get which "side" of the visual mode selection the cursor is on in vimscript?
I'm writing some vimscript and would like to preserve the cursor position after a yank occurs in visual mode.
Ths issue is that I can't find any way to get the cursor position while in visual mode. ...
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better copy-paste multiple lines in visual mode where vim pastes after that visual chunk of code
I want to select multiple lines in vim,
copy them, and paste after that chunk of code (with cursor at the beginning).
yp doesn't work because in visual chunk of code,
vim pastes after the 1st line of ...
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Yank lines without leading whitespace
If I have code like this:
const treeData = {
name: "Parent",
children: [
{
name: "Child 1",
children: [
{
name: "Grandchild 1"
...
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Grep for a pattern using current visual selection on another file
I want to basically search for a pattern in the current file on another file, from vim, using the current visual selection.
I know doing:
:grep pattern otherfile
works, but i want the 'pattern' to be ...
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Paste in front or after in visual-block mode?
I can enter visual-block mode using <C-v>, move down a couple of rows by pressing j several times, then paste some content from the registry via pressing p or P. However, the pasting will ...
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How to yank while in visual mode without showing message?
When I'm in visual mode and I yank the selection (which has at least 3 lines), messages like these are shown:
4 lines yanked
block of 4 lines yanked
How can I suppress this so it won't appear in :...
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How to yank word from all selected lines in visual mode?
In the middle of a line, Press v and select multiple lines.
How to yank the word at current cursor from all selected lines and add spaces if the word is shorter than the longest one to make copied ...
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How would I modify this function to restore from a specified register?
Currently I have the following mapping in my vimrc
nnoremap d "_d
nnoremap D "_D
nnoremap C "_C
nnoremap c "_c
nnoremap <leader>d "*d
nnoremap <leader>D "*D"
The result of the above ...
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Why doesn't the dot command work after pasting in visual mode?
1. Why doesn't this work?
If my text file is:
aaa
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
I can yank aaa, select bbbb in visual mode, and type "0p, to replace it with aaa, with the idea of ...
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How to paste yanked text over visual selection?
Yanked text with y, then v select some text, paste with p, but nothing happens.
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Is there a way to reselect the last pasted text, rather than the last actual selection, starting at the current cursor position? [duplicate]
I know that gv reselects the last visual selection. This is great and I use it frequently.
But sometimes I want to select the block of text that I just pasted. This is useful e.g. for sending example ...
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Why do I need to type ggVVG to select all, instead of just ggVG? [closed]
Sometimes, ggVG does not work to select text. It will move the cursor to the top, but not select the text. This happens seemingly randomly. I have figured out if I type ggVVG it will work as expected. ...
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Yanking into register within a script is not working
Given a file like this:
Roy
Maurice
Jen
Douglas
If I were to type the following commands: ggVj"zy, followed by :reg z, I would see Roy and Maurice.
Now I want to yank Jen and Douglas into the z ...
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How to paste a line inside another line ? i.e. How to paste a line as words?
I would like to easily transform these two lines :
One line.
long line with many words in this example
into the line :
One long line with many words in this example line.
How I currently do ...
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Vim visual block copy don't paste in KDE konsole
Selecting by visual line mode and copying (V and y) in vim in rxvt-unicode or in gnome-terminal and pasting in another tab of that terminal with Shift + Insert works well.
But trying to do the same ...
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What's controlling Vim paste behaviour?
What's controlling Vim paste behaviour via Vim over ssh using putty with right-click paste set to Linux host?
To start we have:
VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Mar 27 2023 00:00:00)
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Copying non-consecutive selected lines in visual mode
Basically I want to select and copy a bunch of non-sequential lines (some lines only partially) from different locations of a code, in a way that each yanked line is appended to clipboard register so ...
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