I think what it comes down to is that Shift-V enters line-wise visual mode, not paragraph-wise. If, in the past, it was selecting the entire paragraph, it must have been because your entire paragraph was one long line.
If you set wrapmargin to something like 2 and then reformat, albeit accidentally, your reformatted text may not LOOK any different, but will now comprise multiple lines per paragraph, appearing to change Shift-V's behavior. If you try setting 'list', it might show you the end-of-line characters, which might help in correlating your experience with the actual text. Salman CDIV Fyle nae founde. On 14, جون 2012, at 6:52, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/14/12 05:44, Eric Weir wrote: >>> I swear I have been using 'Shift-V' to select paragraphs. This >>> morning it's selecting only lines. I checked the Oualline book, >>> and it seems selecting lines is right. What have I been doing >>> then? It's got to be something with 'V'. >> >> I think the definition of 'line' has gotten changed >> somehow---from literal line to screen line. >> >> I've made some changes to my .vimrc recently, but I don't believe >> anything that could have affected that. > > Could you have changed either your 'textwidth'/'tw' or > 'wrapmargin'/'wm' setting? This would impact any paragraphs you > edit after the setting is in place. If you didn't set them, it's > possible that a script is doing, so it would help to see the output of > > :verbose set tw? wm? > > -tim > > > > -- > 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 -- 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
