On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Roy Fulbright <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I am using gvim 7.3 on Windows 7. I need to select the four x's in the
> following sample text. I positioned the cursor on the upper left 'x', then
> typed 'v' to enter visual mode. So far so good, but when I move the cursor
> to the lower right 'x' I lose the selection. How do I designate the
> selection area in visual mode?
>
> ...
> abcd01
> efxx02
> ijxx03
> mnop04
>
>
Do you want xx02ijxx yanked or do you want only xxxx?
Try this:
Do want you are currently doing, then hit y to yank.
:echo @"
To see what you just yanked.
You can also try CTRL-v (or CTRL-q on windows depending on what files you
have source) to use BLOCK visual mode and do the same thing.

David

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