Start with the help on ":behave"  there is selectmode and other changes tucked 
into that command.


> On Aug 28, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (vim) <v...@nedharvey.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> In MacVim, if you put your cursor in the middle of some text document, and 
> you hold shift and press the left, right, up, or down arrow keys, it has the 
> effect of extending your selection by words to the left or right, or to the 
> beginning or end of the document up or down. This is not standard mac 
> behavior. For comparison, try doing the same thing in TextEdit, or basically 
> any other text editor on any platform. If you hold shift and use arrow keys, 
> you expect the arrow keys to move the cursor as usual (one character left or 
> right, one line up or down) and the selection will be extended from the 
> cursor's original location to the new cursor location.
>  
> This is the one and only thing I find frustrating about using MacVim. Is 
> there any way to improve up on it?
> 
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