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 to comment out a set of lines which are selected in visual mode?
How do I comment out multiple in visual mode selected lines? How do I make it language specific?
For example, if the first 4 lines are selected:
def foo(a,b):
for each in (a,b):
print ...
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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 to replace only within visual selection?
How does one get vim to replace a character within the visual selection only and not elsewhere on the line? Example:
Line: int arr[] = { 00 01 02 03 04 05 05 /* ... lots more like this*/};
Visual ...
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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
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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Expand a visual selection in the other direction
Sometimes I have selected a visual selection with, for example, Vjjjjj, only to realize later that I should have started the selection one line higher. However, pressing k simply decreases the lower ...
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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 to achieve selection different length of texts on different lines?
assume I have following texts:
aaa-dd-e: "aaa",
bb-x: "bb",
c-9: "c"
I want to do selection like below:
aaa-dd-e: "aaa",
bb-x: "bb",
c-9: "c"
I tried using c-v to create a visual block, but after ...
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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 ...
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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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How can expand and contract visual selection from a tag block?
Say I have hierarchical markup like this:
<div id="level_1">
<div id="level_2">
<div id="level_3">
watermelon
</div>
</div>...
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What is the select mode and when is it relevant to use it?
I accidentally pressed gh in normal mode and started a selection, so I looked up the doc and found :h Select-mode.
From what I understand the select mode is close to the visual mode excepted that:
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How do you indent > < without leaving visual mode and losing your current selection?
I often have to manually indent, but when I enter a visual mode, select my lines to indent, and press < or >, I leave visual mode whether I want to or not.
I would rather have it so I stay in ...
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How to modify visually selected block with external command?
I have a file that is made up of two vertical parts. On the left side, the data is already formatted and I don't want to change it. I only want to format the data on the right side. Say I have a file ...
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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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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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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 do I loop over a list of files from a visual selection?
Code in .vimrc which starts graphical Neovim on a filename when pressing gff
% http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/277918/16920
:nnoremap gff :silent! exec "!gnvim " shellescape('<cfile>') <bar&...
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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 command to enter Visual Block mode?
I've set up a bunch of key mappings that would cause many Vim users to cringe. Now I am unable to get into Visual Block mode using Ctrl-V (Ctrl-Q isn't mapped, but it doesn't work).
Is there any ...
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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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Is there a way to reselect the last visual shape, rather than the last actual selection, starting at the current cursor position?
I know that gv reselects the last visual selection. This is great and I use it frequently.
But sometimes I want to do something related but different: from the current cursor position, select a block ...
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Can visual select mode be integrated with the Unix selection clipboard?
Is it possible to configure vim (obviously with :set mouse=a) and/or gvim such that the visual selection modes automatically integrate with X's selection buffer?
I am aware of how to setup the copy ...
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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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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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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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Visual block editing: map i
How to map i to start editing on visual block mode?
I want the same behavior for <shift>-i and i.
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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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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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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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How can I call function in visual mode
I want a function to change underline word to little camel for one line.
When I use <shift+v>:s/_\(\w\)/\u\1/g, it work fine.
And then I want to make a function to simplify it, <shift+v>:...
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Why \%V is not added in visual mode during substitution by default?
\%V can be used to restrict match within the visual selection. However, I can't think of a situation when one would not want to do just that in visual mode.
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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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Is it possible to properly repeat a visual replacement?
It is possible in vanilla vim to:
visual select some number of characters, e.g. a variable name in code
type c to begin replacing selection in insert mode
type a replacement (variable name)
exit ...
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How to search in visual mapping?
I am trying to create a text object for consecutive lower-case letters.
Here is how I am setting up the inner text object:
xnoremap in :<C-u>normal! ?[^a-z]?e+1<CR>v/[^a-z]/s-1<CR>
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Vim "gq" command doesn't recognize Haskell-style comments
I have a Haskell file on VIM with a Haskell-style comment block:
When I select that comment block on visual mode...
And press gq, I expected VIM to format my comment to something like:
But instead, ...
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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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Automatically set the 'number' option in Vim when entering Ex mode, set 'nonumber' in visual mode
I have previously asked this in StackOverflow (May 2015), but without getting any replies that I was completely happy with.
This ought to be simple: I want to configure Vim to set number whenever ...
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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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Vimscript: how to detect selection of a text object in visual mode?
I'm writing what may become a plugin that needs to know what is currently
visually selected.
To do it, I'm using the autocmd CursorMoved event to detect the creation of
visual mode selections on the ...
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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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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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Understanding a vimscript function
I have the following function in a vim plugin:
fu! HOLSelect(l,r)
let l:cursor = getpos(".")
if search(a:l,"Wbc") == 0
return
endif
normal v
if search(a:r,"W&...
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Get visually selected text - weird behavior when last selected char is multi-byte
I have made a simple function to echo the visually selected text. The function is simplistic as I am only interested in max one-line selection. The problem is, if the last character of the visual ...
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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 can I detect which way vim is going into visual mode (from up to down or from down to up)?
This is related to better copy-paste multiple lines in visual mode where vim pastes after that visual chunk of code.
I need to be able to detect which way vim is going into visual mode so that I can ...
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How can you turn off text highlighting (hlsearch) with custom text objects?
I am implementing a custom text object in visual mode, but this text object uses regular expressions to find the beginning and ending of the selection. However, when I do this, other parts of the text ...
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