Questions tagged [visual-mode]
Visual mode is a flexible and easy way to select a piece of text for an operator.
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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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Visual selection on variable line lengths
Suppose we have something like,
here is some text.
here is some more text.
here is.
here is some.
Starting with gg 0, how do I do something like v t. 4j so that I can replace text up to a . on each ...
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Discrete Visual mode
A feature that I love in VSCode is to be able to use my mouse to click at multiple points in the screen and type with multiple cursors.
I am aware that in Vim you can do the same in visual mode, but ...
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How can I quickly mark consecutive lines of the same indentation in Vim?
I often edit Python code that needs to be re-indented other otherwise manipulated through visual selection.
Is there any way to visually select all lines of the same indentation in Vim?
I know I ...
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How to store a region of text into a variable?
Suppose I have \label{some text} somewhere in my file and I want to store some text into a variable.
Right now what I am doing to achieve this is to first visually select some text and then store it ...
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Clipboard is reset after first paste in Visual Mode
I am on Neovim.
This is really annoying and weird.
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 ...
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Select text in block-wise visual mode on each line asynchronously
If I have text like this:
cat = "john"
leopard = "frank"
tiger = "josh"
and I want to select the first word of each line in block-wise visual mode, I want to be able to do something like this:
put ...
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Why is `vmap` for both Visual *and* Select mode?
Vim has both Visual and Select modes. Select mode is similar to Visual mode in some senses, but different in that when a printable character is typed, Vim will replace the selection with that ...
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How to check whether a command is run with range or not?
For example, I have the following code
command! -range Test call TestFunc()
function! TestFunc() abort
" if run with range
" get selected content
" else
" get current word under the ...
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Comment-out in vim with Shift-i not working
To comment out a block in vim, I enter visual mode with v or Control-v, select some lines, then hit I (Shift-i).
However, I takes me out of visual mode and into Insert mode (which makes sense, as ...
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Visual mode word behaves differently than in normal mode?
Say I have the text:
This is a test!
If my cursor is on the first character, "T", and then I do d4w, then I am left with just !. However, if instead I do v4wd then I'm left with nothing (i.e. the ...
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How to re-select a previously selected region in visual mode?
I often select a region in visual mode for properly indenting it. However, after pressing e.g. 3>, visual mode exists and the selection disappears.
How can I re-select the previously selected ...
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Deleting comments from the beginning of selected lines
I have written a vimscript function to toggle comments on/off on lines selected in visual mode. The function successfully adds comments but freezes when I try to uncomment selected lines.
The ...
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Trailing characters error in a substitution command
Suddenly simple find&replace stopped working in one particular case. I'm selecting the code-block in visual-mode, so the final command looks like:
'<,'>%s/someStuff/stuff/gI
I get the ...
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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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Visual/Operator-pending autocommand?
Last week, I turned off 'number' and have been using only 'relativenumber', plus a line/column count in my status line. I don't really look at line numbers that much.
But now I've had a radical idea.
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viw breaks when i is remapped
I have the following in my init.vim (neovim):
nnoremap i k
nnoremap j h
nnoremap k j
xnoremap i k
xnoremap j h
xnoremap k j
nnoremap h i
nnoremap H I
I find this arrow key-like configuration much ...
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'visual inner word' on single space does not grow selection
In visual mode, the iw text object 'grows' with repeated presses of iw, ie., viwiwiw... will 'grow' to select multiple inner words.
However, this 'growing' behaviour is not seen when the cursor is ...
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Cursor Column in Visual Selection
What is the correct way get the column of the cursor after a visual selection was made?
As a simple example, consider the following command. It takes a range and I am trying to obtain the column to ...
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Keep function “keyword = arguments” together when reformatting across multiple lines using “gq”?
One thing I find myself doing often is using visual mode to select a block containing a long function definition containing one or more keyword arguments, and then using gq to reformat the code across ...
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gq in visual mode indents just first two lines of enumeration
Some markdown as an example. I select the following paragraph in visual mode and press gq. The result is:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor ...
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How to go back after accidentally hitting H in visual mode?
While selecting in visual mode I often accidentally hit H or L instead of h or l due to having used Shift for some previous command (like e.g. V to start selection by line) and not yet released it ...
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Using visual selection or register for search and replace
Is there a way to use a register or visual selection for search and replace?
I have some longer sequence of words that are used repeatedly in my script. I want to replace them all but want to avoid ...
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Write text under the cursor to new file and delete it form current file
I have this in my vimrc:
" Export text under the cursor
noremap <leader>e :w! >><Space>
This allows me to select text using visual mode, press leader e, type a file name, and ...
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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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remove extra (^@) from visual selection
I'm writing a function to execute an external command using visual selection.
I've noticed that if by mistake the entire line is selected, including the new line char the extra ^@ character makes the ...
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How to repeat the last : command for a visual selection instead of whole buffer?
Say I've done the command:
:g/^.\{1,50\}$/m$
To move all lines with 50 or less characters to the bottom of the file.
Then I realise I actually didn't want to do that for the whole file, but for ...
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How to run a substitute command on only a certain part of the line
I have the following line in my code:
INCORRECT_EMAIL_MOBILE_COMBINATION("incorrect_email_mobile_combination");
When I try to substitute the underscores with spaces in visual mode (using :'<,'>...
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How do I map multiple replace commands in visual mode
I'm trying to edit my init.vim to allow quick, custom retabbing with one key. My current attempt is as follows (the replace text in the last command is a tab character inputted in insert mode):
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Entering visual mode is selecting whole lines unexpectedly
I'm editing a small bash script:
d=$1
year=$(date -d"$d" +%Y)
month=$(date -d "$d" +%m)
day=$(date -d "$d" +%d)
hive -f /home/gavin_cameron/hive_queries/dc_player_daily_snapshot.hive -d ...
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How to start insert-mode completion from select mode using Vimscript?
I have some text selected in select mode. I want to delete it and start insert-mode completion.
When I type these keystrokes into Vim it works perfectly:
gvc<C-X><C-U>
gv switches to ...
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Why is this appearing to select wrong number of lines?
First, I typed 2V to select two lines, and y to yank them. Then I typed 3V, and instead of selecting 3 lines, Vim selects 6 lines. Next I typed 4V and Vim selected 8 lines. It seems that 3 or 4 in the ...
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How do I move to the beginning of a visual block from a vimscript function?
Suppose i have several lines of text:
line1 line1
line2 line2
line3 line3
I want to create a vimscript function that has the following result:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>line1 ...
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Is there a way to determine whether the current / last visual block selection is non-rectangular?
One can create non-rectangular Visual-Block selections using C-v$ on files with lines of non-equal length.
Is it possible to programmatically determine whether the last Visual Block selection was non-...
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Visual block mode insert/append not working in vim on RHEL/CentOS?
I was trying to append some text to multiple lines in vi on a RHEL 6 system, however I could not get it to work. I press Control + V to get into visual block mode, select the lines I need, but when I ...
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Visual Block Mode edit with sequential number [duplicate]
Suppose I'd like to create a list
- "1"
- "2"
- "3"
what Is the smartest way to create such?
My attempt would be to i- "1"ESCyypp to get
- "1"
- "1"
- "1"
and then jump to the second line's 1 ...
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Move selected text to the right
Say I have a line 1234text5678, where I have selected text in visual mode. I would like to have a command <Shift>+, that moves text to the right one character and selects text again. I.e. the ...
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Replacement in visual mode
I wrote a function for selecting a text region and replacing in it certain predefined characters:
fun! Tstrepl() range
s/\%Va/\="\u2227"/ge " 'a' to 'ā§'
s/\%Vb/\="\u2228"/ge " 'b' to 'āØ'
...
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visual line mode is ended by inner block motion
When I do Vi{y to select inside a { block and yank it, it doesn't paste how I expect.
I noticed that after V (which puts me into VISUAL-LINE mode), the i{ object takes me into VISUAL mode.
Here's a ...
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How to use visual mode in python/dyn?
Vim documentation states how to run command and normal mode commands (source):
vim.command(str) python-command
Executes the vim (ex-mode) command str. ...
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How to write on multiple places at once
I'm familiar with vertical blocks, and I often ctrl+v down down down shift+I foobar esc to write foobar in various locations at once.
This is useful if I want to replace <td> to <th> in a ...
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past yanked content in rectangular selection
I have some long text on Yank var
e.g. "Hello all how are you ?"
I have a rectangular selection between abc and ABC /a llC-vjj
a A
b B
C C
And I want to past my long text without having to type it
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Pass character-wise visual selection to an external command
I want to VISUAL select a piece of text character-wise and pass it to an external command.
For example I want to select only the URL from the the text below
abcde www.google.com abcde
and open it ...
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How to source a part of a file
I can source a file, e.g. my vimrc with :so % or :so <filename>. But what do I do when I need to source only part of a file. I want some way to visually select a portion of the file with :h v ...
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How to expand selection to containing block?
I'm trying to re-do the C-w selection shortcut in Jetbrains's IDE.
Is there a way to select visually the whole containing block ?
for now, i use
nnoremap <C-w> <Esc>viw
vnoremap <C-w&...
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Do operator ranges/movements/textobjects always overwrite the last visual selection? workaround?
In vim, when I operate on a textobject from a plugin, say the 'inner indent' typed ii from kana/vim-textobj-indent, my last visual selection ('>, '<) is reset to where the operator worked on. ...
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Select characters in Visual mode (works differently than Normal mode)
I'm trying to understand the difference in character counting between Normal and Visual modes.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.
The task is to copy everything from ...
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May I have a Vim session report its “Mode” in its “Window Title”?
Clarification of the moving parts
First, let me clarify what I mean by "Window Title", and what I expect to achieve
On Windows OS, GUI programs will have three attributes: its Window Title texts, ...
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How to stop vim from automatically displaying latex formatting? [duplicate]
I have a latex file I am editing in vim. Something annoying that I'm running into is that vim seems to auto display things that I am typesetting in math mode.
Here is an example. Say I write the ...
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How to visually select based on indentation?
If someone is editing the following javascript file:
let foo = true
if (foo) {
let bar = 42
// moooooore code...
}
You can use vi{ anywhere on the line with let bar to select let bar = 42 and ...
