On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 at 09:44 -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Michael Torrie wrote: > >Hans knows a lot more of the cool features than I and he can probably > >tell us how to do the block mark where you block off a completely > >rectangular section (ie exactly 10 columns wide, 30 rows high). > >Sometimes that kind of copy and paste can be very useful. > > There actually three "visual modes" in vim: v, V (shift-v), and CTRL-V. > > v just highlights; V highlights lines at a time (you can't do partial > lines); and CTRL-V highlights columns.
Some of my favorite idioms: <c-v>jjjjjjjjjI#<esc> (also works with A) ggVGd or ggVGy /yomama<enter>vllllllllcyo mama<esc>n.n.n. vjjjjjjjjjjjjjjokkkkkk Try them out. Obviously you don't need to press the precise number of movement keys I did there. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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