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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How can I quickly replace multiple selections one after another?
To format text in LaTeX you need to surround it with curly brackets, e.g. \emph{} to render it emphasized. I often need to add commands like that to selected text fragments, nothing that could be ...
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Surround part of line with comment /* .. */ [duplicate]
Is it possible to surround a selected part of a line with /* and */?
start COMMENT ME end
start /*COMMENT ME*/ end
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in function how to stop visual mode and how to run a mapping
Assume I am inside a function and currently in visual mode (mode() returns v or V or "\<c-v>", such as when you run vmap-expr)
How can I quit the visual mode? Should I call feedkeys("\<esc&...
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What is the easiest way to select multiple words in visual mode?
If I have the cursor placed on "word1" and wanted to select "word1 word2 word3" (i.e. with no trailing space after "word3") what is the easiest command?
word1 word2 word3 word4
I am currently using ...
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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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How to visual select everything within a pair of fold markers
Are there simple tweaks that I can visual select everything with in a pair of fold markers? Just like what vi" will do for a pair of double quotes. Preferably vi plus some other keys.
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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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Quoting blocks but ignoring whitespace
Let's say I have
Foo BAR Baz Quxxx Foo
Baar Asd Duxxxxx Bar Foo
Baazzz Kuxx Baz
I would ideally like to be to highlight the first, second, or third column. Then I would ...
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How can I visual select a ruby module?
Assuming I have the following:
My::Cool::Klass.call(args)
Cool::Klass.call(args)
Is there anyway I can visually select either the My::Cool::Klass or the Cool::Klass with a quick command?
Note: ...
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How to find why esc doesn't work right away in visual mode?
When I press <Esc> in visual mode, I don't immediately return to normal mode (the selection persists). I think that is because I have a mapping defined in visual mode shat starts from <Esc>...
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How to select a block in visual mode and delete this block and immediately enter insert mode?
for one single word, the job is quite easy: we just do a 'cw'
what if I select a certain text and I want to replace this block with one word?
obviously I can do a 'x' and then 'i', is there a one ...
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getpos(“.”) in visual mode equals getpos(“v”)
I uses neovim 0.3.1 only.
I define the following function and map to do a test for getpos in visual mode:
function! show_position()
echo getpos("'<") getpos("'>") getpos(".") getpos("v") ...
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iedit behaviour in Vim?
For Emacs there is idedit. It Allows you to select some text, then hit one button, which automatically select all other occurrences of the selected text in the current buffer. Then you can edit the ...
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In visual mode, how can I select to either the next section or the end of the file?
I'm having trouble selecting sections in a file in a visual mode macro to separately perform some action on each section. Here's an example file:
[insert introduction here] ...
....
------
section .....
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Is it possible to return to normal mode in the middle of a vim command?
By simply calling :(range)g/bob/norm Axxx I can add xxx to the to the end of all lines in range containing bob. Is there a way to return to normal mode after having used A/I/a/i to enter insert mode, ...
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Expand the visual selection independently of the cursor position
I would like to add, say, the next three characters to the current visual selection. For example:
Do not select. Select from here.
Select this too. Select until there. Do not select.
If bold ...
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Stay in visual mode when in command mode and pressing escape
Suppose we do the following steps:
Visually select something
Type :some stuff
press escape
when we do the last step, the command mode is exited but also we are left in normal mode - not visual mode....
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Move Selected Lines in Visual Line Mode
Once in visual line mode I'm looking for a way to move the selected area up and down in the file. Note I'm not looking to actually modify the content of the file in any way just moved the shaded (...
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How do I start overwriting visually selected text without c
I would like to start overwriting immediately visually selected text without any additional keystrokes such as c. I am looking something similar to normal text editor where you can straightaway ...
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Convert a search and replace to a function
Given this search and replace expression, which works fine on one or multiple visually selected lines:
:'<,'>s/\v.{-}(`.{-}`).{-}(\\'.{-}\\').*/$this->execSQL('DELETE FROM \1 WHERE id = \2;')...
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How can I delimit sentences by carriage return?
I write screenplays with fountain. Dialogue syntax looks like this:
THE TERMINATOR
Hasta la vista. Baby.
I would like to be able to select the sentence: Hasta la vista., without also selecting THE ...
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gx doesn't work on visually selected text
I have a link to a pdf file in my vim which contains spaces. I'm trying to open it with external app. While with gf I can visually select the text (e.g. a b.pdf) and open the pdf as a text file but ...
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remove automatic '<,'> when hitting colon in visual mode
This problem started because I want to run a command in visual mode with
:silent! '<,'> command here
however if I do a mapping
vnoremap ,a :silent! '<,'> command here
then in vim runs ...
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How to change highlighted text?
I write using LaTeX a lot for scientific writing. I often need to modify some text that includes numbers and units like:
4.2 cm
into:
\SI{4.2}{cm}
to be properly typeset by LaTeX. Of course, the ...
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Visual mode - select text from the first character of the line with Home key
In my vimrc file I use the following setup to map the HOME key to jump before the first character of the line:
:set keymodel=startsel,stopsel
:noremap <silent> <Home> ^
:vnoremap <...
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Visual selection and replacement in multiple lines to perform DIFFERENT edits in vim
How can I select different portions of multiple non-contiguous lines and replace them with the different text?
Example: Let's say my buffer looks like this:
Roses are reed,
Violets aree blue, yellow ...
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How do I add text before and after the visual selection?
Suppose I’ve selected some text in visual mode. How do I insert a certain piece of text at the beginning of the selection and a different piece of text at the end?
(I’m only concerned with “normal” ...
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Key binding to select the current paragraph
I'm using the following key binding to visually select the current paragraph.
nnoremap <leader>v }kV{j
Is works as follows:
} Move below the current paragraph.
k Move one line up.
V Start ...
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How to select/delete/yank the contents of only the current fold?
When using foldmethod=marker, how do you select or reference exactly the contents of the current fold? I want to swap the order of two folds. If they were paragraphs, I would do dap { p. However, I ...
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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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sublimetext vintage mode, vs VIM trying to find a substitute for a shortcut key [closed]
So in vim usually I press
v j j j > esc
then gv to reselect so that I can indent a couple of lines.
How can we reselect in VI?
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Is it possible to do not expand the Visual-mode selection with ScrollWheelUp/Down?
When I select some text in Visual mode (either with keyboard or mouse), and I scroll the mouse wheel up/down, the visual mode expands the selection in up/down direction according to the mouse ...
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How can I visually select a regex match?
Sometimes I just want to see whether a regex is matching the right stuff. If I could cause Vim to visually select the matching text, it would be one way to do this. Is there a method for doing this?
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Replicate normal mode function in visual mode
I had the following mapping to go to the 1st non blank character of a line
nnoremap M ^
I then decided that if I was already at the 1st non blank character I wanted M to take me to the absolute 1st ...
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What is Lang-Arg in vim?
I was seeing the docs in :help map-mode where I saw that map! works for Insert and Command-line modes while lmap works on Insert, Command-line, Lang-Arg But I've never heard of Lang-Arg mode. Can you ...
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Linux gvim visual mode cursor - avoid newline selection
When I enter in visual-mode and I want to delete a block of text before the newline character (only visible if selected/highlighted in visual-mode), I accidentally always select the newline character ...
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Writing text to multiple lines in different locations of the text file
One feature useful to me is Ctr-V column visual mode. This way I can avoid typing lines nearly the same multiple times. Is there a way in vim I can do this over a range like 5,14,22,.. so that the ...
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Linux gvim - toggle/retain insert-select mode while Shift key is pressed
I noticed using evim that when I press Shift key plus any direction key (so <S-Up>, <S-Down> etc., the editor automatically switches to insert-select mode, letting me select the text block ...
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How to select text character by character with shift and directions?
I would like to know how I can select text character by character, in visual mode, using a combination of shift+direction without using the mouse.
Actually, with Shit + Left/Right gvim selects the ...
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reset count for `v`
According to :help v a count of 1 provided to v will select the same number of characters as the previous selection, but starting from the current cursor (see full help below). When there was no ...
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Select a backtick-delimited block, rather than an inline string?
I'm editing some Javascript in which the following is common:
var foo = `
a bunch
of text
and stuff
`;
And I'd like to quickly be able to select the entire block between the backticks, like I ...
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get string from visual selection [duplicate]
Having some text selected in visual mode, I need some way of turning it into a string that can be used in an expression.
I have tried this
function! VisualSelection()
normal! `<""y`>
...
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Vim operation - creating a new text object selector for entire file [duplicate]
You can do dap, or vap, etc to select a paragraph. I want to be able to select/yank/delete the entire file.
One way to do this would be to have:
vnoremap af ggoG$
nnoremap yaf ggVGy
nnoremap daf ...
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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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Highlight everything inside (, [, and { and expand outwards
Suppose I have a line of text of the form (123[456{789}abc]def) and the cursor is inside the curly braces. In sublime text, we can use ctrl-shift-m repeatedly to jump to highlighting 789, {789}, 456{...
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Help to implement script that toggle single and double quotes
I have following
function! s:get_visual_selection()
let [line_start, column_start] = getpos("'<")[1:2]
let [line_end, column_end] = getpos("'>")[1:2]
let lines = getline(line_start, ...
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Replace all occurrences in visual block selection but NOT all occurrences on line
I'm trying to figure out how to do a search and replace on a visual block selection that will replace all occurrences in the visual block selection without replacing all occurrences on the line.
What ...
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simple map to right align text selection within visual block?
This should be easy but it seems to be a blind spot in vim. I'm looking for a short one line mapping, let's say to <leader>r, to right-align text inside a visual block selection. For example, ...
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How to decrease markdown header level in visual mode without a plugin?
I have a file like this:
# Heading A
### Heading B1
lorem ipsum
### Heading B2
lorem ipsum
and I want to reduce the header levels of B1 and B2 to look like this:
# Heading A
## Heading B1
...
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how to write command to save selected text?
I want to save selected text in vim. I use command :'<,'>w! ~/save.txt.
How to write a short command instead of it, or mapping it to key mappings.
