On Sunday, December 28, 2014 12:22:41 PM UTC-8, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-12-28 20:59, Mathias Rav wrote: > > 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. > > Additionally, instead of using visual mode right-out, you can drop a > mark at the two ends (such as 'a and 'b) and then scroll between them > to your heart's content. Once verified, you can > > v`ao`b > > (or use V/^V if you want line/block selection) and operate on the > resulting selection that you've verified. > > -tkc
So is this a bug? I mean, scrolling a screen up or down shouldn't affect my selection, should it? -- -- 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.
