On Jan 16, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Vlad Irnov wrote: > > On Jan 16, 4:27 pm, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I misspoke. Yes, I do use v and V--frequently! What puzzles me in this case >> is that the changes took place over an extended block of text. As I write I >> can see how that would have happened. Most of what was changed was in folds. >> If I selected the folds I would've selected everything in the fold. > > It's easy to make such mistake if selected text in Visual mode does > not stand out and looks similar to Folded lines. Then you may not > notice that you are in Visual mode. This is unfortunately a problem > with many Vim color schemes, including the default one for GUI. They > use the same or similar background color for selected text (Visual), > folded lines (Folded), and current line/column (CursorLine, > CursorColumn) highlight groups. I recommend setting background color > for Visual selection to some bright, garish color that is different > from all other highlightings. Something like CadetBlue2 or cyan. Then > you will always know when you are in Visual mode. If you use default > GUI colorscheme, try putting this in your .vimrc: > hi Visual gui=NONE guifg=NONE guibg=CadetBlue2
Thanks, Vlad. I like the suggestion. I'm not sure which color scheme I'm using. Whatever it is, I know I've tweaked it a little. I use MacVim, and my scheme is probably one of the ones that come with it. I'll check it out and the check out the code you suggest. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir 1111 Clairemont Avenue J3 ~ Decatur, GA 30030 404-636-6142 ~ [email protected] -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
