On Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:04:59 PM UTC-4, Lucas Hoffmann wrote: > On 23. Jun 2012, at 19:23, Paul wrote: > > On Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 21:41:01 BST, Joshua Dennis wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an entire > > string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines. Anyone know of a > > way to do this? (while in vim vi" is close, but it won't span new lines) > > It's not entirely what you're after but the SyntaxMotion script can kind of > help: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965 > > Have you tried this (assuming your curser is on the first double quote): > v/"<CR> > This starts visual mode and searches for the next double quote. If you have > backslash-escaped double quotes in the string you can use: v/[^\\]"<CR>l > Note: Do not type the escape sequence "<CR>" but hit enter instead (type it > if you want to define a mapping for this)
Yes, this works! Thank you. I never thought to go about it that way. -- 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
