Hari Krishna Dara <[email protected]> [09-11-09 18:12]: > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ben Fritz <[email protected]> [09-11-09 05:20]: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Nov 8, 9:11 am, [email protected] wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > is it possible to make a visual selection permament > >> > that way, that only a specific command will un-visual > >> > the block? > >> > > >> > Currently the visual block is unhighlighted after one has > >> > -- for example -- entered the wrong :s//-command. > >> > > >> > >> If you entered the wrong :s command (or any other ex command) you > >> don't actually need to re-highlight the block. Just press : then the > >> up arrow to recall the last command, edit it to taste, and run it > >> again. You'll note the '<,'> remains at the beginning of the line, so > >> it acts on the last selected visual selection regardless of whether > >> you are currently in Visual Mode or not. > >> > > > > > Hi, > > > > I know that. > > > > I simply want to make the visual selection permament without > > submitting extra commands / doing extra actions each time by > > preserving the selection as such. > > > > Until now it seems, that this isn't possible with vim. > > > > If you explain why you want to have your selection visible, then it > would help the folks on the list to give the right suggestion. I am > not sure if this fits your bill, but my multiselect plugin lets you > press <Enter> on the visual selection to add to the list of selections > and thus make it appear permanently selected (though it is not in the > same sense of a visual selection). The purpose is to be able to run > commands on the set of selections, but if all you want is to see the > area as selected, it might help. > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=953 Hi,
I often experiment with "reformatting" lists of texts into other lists of texts in a most general sense. Since I am not the regexp guru I want to be, this often fails, must be correct, added some other tweaks and so on. Also I often apply regexp-based commands to a subset of lines of those texts. ,..and I often forget the exact range of the visual selection I done before -- but this is vital to pick the correct regexp for the next magic to perform. I simply git tired to do this in a loop: : <enter partly wrong regexp based command here> <cr> (selection gets deselected here) :gv<cr> : <enter partly wrong regexp based command here> <cr> (selection gets deselected here) :gv<cr> : <enter partly wrong regexp based command here> <cr> (selection gets deselected here) :gv<cr> : <enter partly wrong regexp based command here> <cr> (selection gets deselected here) :gv<cr> : <enter partly wrong regexp based command here> <cr> (selection gets deselected here) :gv<cr> <cr> . . . . and so on. Its simply a kind of lazyness, which lets me ask, how one can make the selection stay on screen as visual as functional. Or with other and less words: I want to make the visual selection being permament because I am lazy (in this case) and lazyness is the driving part of all technical innovation in first place ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
