On 2009-11-09, [email protected] wrote:
> 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>
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 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 ;)
How about this?
:cnoremap <CR> <CR>gv
To turn off that behavior,
:cunmap <CR>
HTH,
Gary
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