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What is the select mode and when is it relevant to use it?
The whole point of select mode is to provide a selection behavior similar to the one used in conventional editors.
On the same note, there's mswin.vim which changes a bunch of options and mappings to ...
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Git Fugitive how to git add a visually selected chunk of code
fugitive.vim now allows for staging a selection of a hunk with visual mode.
Open the git summary with :Git (or :G)
Expand the file which contains the lines you want to stage with > (or = to toggle)...
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Fold selected lines
You can press V to go into Visual Line mode, select the lines to be folded, then zf to make a manual fold. You'll need to :set foldmethod=manual if it isn't already set.
You can open the fold with ...
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How to add space on multiple lines when pressing spacebar (without extra configuration)?
You were right about visual mode, but you should have tried blockwise visual mode by pressing <C-V>.
In blockwise visual mode you can select the lines and columns of your selection. When you ...
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Git Fugitive how to git add a visually selected chunk of code
There might be other ways, but this approach lets you to do more than adding a chunk, which is why I tend to use it quite a lot.
Run :Gdiff command. It will open a split with version of current file ...
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How to partially replace text in a selected text-block?
Typing c after selecting your block instead of x will remove the text in the selection block and will enter insert mode. Once you type something and exit insert mode you should have the same change on ...
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Visual select from cursor to next empty line?
Vim understands the concept of a "paragraph". Vim's definition of a paragraph is a block of text surrounded by blank lines*. There are several motions and text objects to work with this.
[count]} – ...
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Quickly calculate the total of a column of numbers
If you don't want to use plugins or drop to a bash script, you can do something like the following:
c-V {motions} "ay copy column into "a
:let @a = substitute(@a, 'c-V c-J', '+', 'g') replace the ...
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How to replace only within visual selection?
There’s \%V for that, see :h %V:
%V
Match inside the Visual area. When Visual mode has already been
stopped match in the area that gv would reselect. This is a
/zero-width match. To make sure the ...
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How do you indent > < without leaving visual mode and losing your current selection?
I have this in my vimrc:
"keep visual mode after indent
vnoremap > >gv
vnoremap < <gv
Note that you could also simply use . (dot) to repeat the last indent action.
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How can I source a visual selection of vimscript?
On the command line hit <C-u> then type @* and enter.
<C-u> will delete the visual range '<,'> that has been automatically inserted if some text is visually selected.
:@* will ...
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How to run a substitute command on only a certain part of the line
Yes, this is a long answer. That's because I try to cover the sometimes intimidating sub-replace expression as clearly as I can. Don't be frightened...please dive in! :)
This can be looked at as a ...
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Quickly calculate the total of a column of numbers
I wrote a plugin: https://github.com/sk1418/HowMuch which supports visual selection and does math calculations.
By default the plugin supports three math-expression evaluation engines: Gnu bc, ...
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Mapping a command in Visual Mode results in error E481: No range alllowed
I'm not sure, but I think that when you hit <leader>l to call :REPLSendLine, Vim automatically inserts the visual range '<,'>, and since your command is not defined with the attribute -...
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Quickly calculate the total of a column of numbers
:r!awk '{sum+=$6} END {print "Total: "sum}' %
Explanation:
:r ........... read (put result in this file)
! ............ external command
awk .......... external tool
{sum+=$6} .... sixth field (awk ...
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Is there a command to enter Visual Block mode?
There is no built in command to start visual block mode in vim, but you can define one yourself:
command! Vb normal! <C-v>
Here is a breakdown of how it works:
command! Vb - This creates a ...
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How to achieve selection different length of texts on different lines?
Vim only supports rectangular blockwise selections, with the exception of the jagged right border when you press $.
There are plugins (like vim multiple cursors) that can emulate multiple selections, ...
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Perform previous substitution for different selection with single keystroke
I think you want to do @: which replays the last ex command.
See :h @:
Note that this command can be called from normal mode and from visual mode. Also in this case it is not useful but you can also ...
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Visual select from cursor to next empty line?
A shortcut for next empty line is }.
So you just might want to use SHIFT+v}
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Visual Block Mode edit with sequential number
Depending on your usecase the following might be useful:
Create the entries all with the number "1":
- "1"
- "1"
- "1"
- "1"
Then go to the second "1" and press V to start line-wise visual. Then ...
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Which text object defines text enclosed in space?
I believe you are looking for the WORD text object.
From :h WORD:
A WORD consists of a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white
space. An empty line is also considered to be a ...
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Passing visual range to a :command as its argument
See this answer on stackoverflow.
The example given is:
function! PrintGivenRange() range
echo "firstline ".a:firstline." lastline ".a:lastline
" Do some more things
endfunction
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How do I restore visual mode selection highlighting?
I had this issue as well because I had switched to the "evening" color scheme in my ~/.vimrc file so that my comments were easier to read on a dark background:
:colorscheme evening
To restore visual ...
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Git Fugitive how to git add a visually selected chunk of code
Vimcasts has a great series on Fugitive.vim. The episode Fugitive.vim - working with the git index would be the the most helpful for your question.
You can use :Gdiff to stage only portions of a file....
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Key binding to select the current paragraph
See:
:h ip
:h ap
You are looking for the built in vip.
Also, :h text-objects is a good start to find the text objects you are looking for.
Edit To address your comment: to move the cursor to one ...
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How to visually select based on indentation?
I've used vim-indent-object for a while with some success.
It provides text objects like ii, ai, iI, and aI, each with slightly different semantics.
For your sample code
def some_method
if @foo
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Git Fugitive how to git add a visually selected chunk of code
Stage Complete or Partial Hunks with vim-gitgutter
Stage Complete Hunk
<Leader>hs or
:GitGutterStageHunk
Stage Part of an Additions-only Hunk (since 8/2019)
Visual mode
{Visual}<Leader&...
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How to run a substitute command on only a certain part of the line
Since you mentioned visual mode... You can also use the \%V match to only match inside the current visual selection (or last one, if not in visual mode.)
Using \%V would allow you to use the same ...
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How to source a part of a file
After you've done your Visual selection run this:
y:@"<CR>
y copies the selection to the unnamed register (") since we didn't explicitly name a register. Then :@" executes the contents of that ...
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