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How to grow/shrink a selection per tab?
If it’s always a whole line, just replace gv with V
We tried
xnoremap <expr> <Tab> line("'<") isnot# line("'>") ? '>gvVgv' : '>V'
to handle multi-line selections and single-line selections, but there …
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Copy text extracted from multiple lines
An alternate approach, though Vivian’s is great:
Clear a register: qaq
Yank all the emails to that register: :global/email/normal! 0f:l"Ayt)
This won’t put newlines between the emails. A cleverer co …
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Select text in block-wise visual mode on each line asynchronously
In general, visual block selections must be blocks (rectangles). The only "jagged" selections are when you hit <C-v>$ to select to the end of multiple lines.
However, depending on what you want to do …
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Select entire function call or extend selection
For
func(gunk(a, b))
with the cursor on the f of func, I would press y% or d%. The % command jumps between matching pairs (roughly; depending on configuration, optional plugins that ship with Vim, et …
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When text is selected in Neovim on macOS, that selection isn't added to the primary clipboar...
I don't think macOS exposes "PRIMARY" (as distinct from "CLIPBOARD") in the way that other that, say, X does. See :help quoteplus and :help quotestar. In practice I find both registers are the clipboa …
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Select multiple words, one at a time, then replace them all
substitute in a narrower region, than the whole file (%), use ranges (and remember that in visual mode, : automatically populates the range '<,'>, which is also the range *, which is all the lines in the selection …
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Selector for line of text?
The fastest I can come up with is really ^vg_ to be precise about start and end of line.
But, by way of challenge, perhaps you really need dd, yy, cc, or similar? Even guu and g~~ work.
If you can …
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Put cursor at arbitrary line and column
You need to set virtualedit=all. The virtualedit option controls where you can edit outside of the actual text (there are other options). Read :help 'virtualedit' for more.
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Select current Line from normal mode without changing cursor position AND without selecting ...
In visual and visual block mode, your cursor is always at one corner of the selection; in visual line mode, the end of line is always included. So what you want is not supported. …
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