On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bao Niu <[email protected]> wrote: > If I select a long patch of code spanning several pages, I'd like to view how > much I actually selected by scrolling up and down. However this will > automatically 'ruins' what I have selected because it changes the anchor! > > How can I fix the two ends of what I have selected in visual mode? Many > thanks.
You can press 'o' in visual mode to go to the other end of the selected text -- see :help v_o. You can also press g CTRL-G in visual mode to see how many lines/words/bytes you have selected -- see :help v_g_CTRL-G. Best, Mathias Rav -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
