On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 04:07:32PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi James! > > On Sa, 26 Jan 2013, James McCoy wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:17:16PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > Bram, > > > when visual mode is active and one is jumping to another position > > > using :<nr> visual mode is unexpectedly ended. > > > > Why is this unexpected? You've changed from visual to cmdline mode. > > The indication of visual mode is an aid to see the area on which you're > > operating. > > Because I started visual mode and wanted it to highlight far down to a > specific line which was several hundreds lines down. So I entered like > always :1500 and visual mode ended. This was not nice ;)
1500G would be how I would recommend doing that, but I've seen other people try :# before. I'll leave it up to Bram on whether that should work or not. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]>
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